You've heard the age-old riddle: "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Taken metaphorically, it's a meditation on the futility of determining the cause of a self-perpetuating cycle. Taken ...

Researchers have developed a method for culturing fertilized chick eggs without their shells. The eggs were placed in an artificial culture vessel made of transparent film, allowing for real-time ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. These kinds of eggs are called amniotic eggs because of the way they keep the ...

Life will find a lay. Just weeks after archaeologists rolled out their latest discovery — who invented the wheel — scientists in Switzerland might’ve also finally cracked the age-old paradox. The hard ...

There are already two main methods of sexing unhatched chicken embryos, but they both have their drawbacks. One approach involves drilling a tiny hole in the shell of each egg, then withdrawing ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Efforts to observe chicken embryonic development date back to Aristotle date back to 300 BC. However, because the chicken's eggshell is opaque, it has been necessary to break the shell ...