The Evolution of Eggs

We don't know how some colors on certain types of eggs are made. It's done in the as it's passing along through the cloaca and in the oviduct. There are these melanin producing glands that are cells that will actually make the color. One hypothesis which is kind of crazy would be just they wanted to look so weird that no predator would look at that and go, yeah, that's something we should eat.

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