In honour of #Easter 🌈, here few curious facts about eggs!!!🐣🐤🐔
Probably everyone knows that the biggest egg on Earth, (at the moment not in the past) is the Ostrich's (weight 5 kilos), and the smallest is the Humminbird's🐦 (weight 0,4 grams).
But not everyone knows that the weight of a kiwi’s egg is usually about quarter of its own weight, for humans it's like giving birth to a fully grown 4 years old kid, or for a chicken laying an egg that weights half a kilogram!!
😥 Ohi ohi!! Poor them!! 😫
Instead, the dinosaurs🐊, after laying a egg, needed to wait 6 months before becoming parents!! 😲😲
But how do we have this info?
Few fossil eggs were discovered and put under an X-Ray exam which revealed little embryos at the 60% of their development.
Studying their teeth they found out a baby dino needs 6 months to hatch!! ⏳😰🙈
Probably this was another factor which caused their #extinction: the time between one #generation and another was too long, therefore they didn't manage to adapt to the new #weather. 😞
About cold, an animal who got adapted to extreme weather is the #Penguin 🐧!!!
The female lays the egg but it's the male who takes care of it for 65 days, keeping it warm and making sure it doesn't get dropped in the snow, holding it on top of its feet. It's so funny seeing how they walk protecting that egg with parental love, or watching the parents passing it between them.
If you want to learn more about eggs go to the NHM at Tring, that has the largest birds' egg collection. Click here if you want to read it!!!
Enjoy the reading and
Happy #Egghunt!! 🐣🐰
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