1,700 year old egg never broke
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1,700 year old egg never broke
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#2I guess they are scientists and know better than me, but my bet is that is will just contain sludge.
Egg shells are more organic than you expect.
This is why you use stuff like waterglass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate to seal them.
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#3I think they should not pierce it, but instead leave it for future humans to study.
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#4The eggshell looks like a century egg, but as mentioned by the comment the contents may have decomposed if the mud wasn't alkaline like the century egg production process.
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#5I think they should not pierce it, but instead leave it for future humans to study.
Forbidden breakfast!
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#6I dare them to make an omelette wit that.
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#7>Scientists are eager to use DNA testing to establish the species that laid the egg
how much DNA is in an egg, isn't it just a single cell with a single nucleus? and if unfertilized is haploid?
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#8Of course they are going to break it.
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#10> Scientists are eager to use DNA testing to establish the species that laid the egg how much DNA is in an egg, isn't it just a single cell with a single nucleus? and if unfertilized is haploid?
In addition to the single nucleus the egg can contains trace of DNA from the mother