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The Incredible Egg (encore)
Gastropod
The Beauty of Eggs
The process of building an egg inside a bird takes about 24 hours from start to finish. The shell alone takes 12 to 14 hours to lay down, using calcium nozzles. And then comes the spray paint. Eggs come in all sorts of different colors and those colors are sprayed with inkblatt squiggly patterns. Then there's one final step before the egg sees the light of day. That final layer is another defense mechanism to stop all those pesky microbes from getting in and beasting on the delicious yolk.
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