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A emu egg (left) next to a cassowary egg (right). They are some of the largest bird eggs on the planet.

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A emu egg (left) next to a cassowary egg (right). They are some of the largest bird eggs on the planet.

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  • @amzd@lemmy.world
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    5•3 months ago

    Put them back mf

    • @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      8•3 months ago

      The forest was burning, so he rescued them. Now he will put them back, lovingly, on the stove for breakfast for him and his five children.

      Those poor eggs.

      Out of the fire,

      and into the frying pan.

  • @Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    They are also single frigging cells. Yet, they have nothing on the largest unicellular organisms, size-wise.

    • Smee
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      8•3 months ago

      wiki

      Good grief, just tell us the size. I skimmed the article and is none the wiser.

      • @Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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        3•3 months ago

        The biggest single-celled organism in the world is structured in the same way: an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, which can grow to 30cm long. https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2019/04/this-bizarre-bubble-creature-is-a-single-living-cell/

  • @reactionality@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4•3 months ago

    omelette

  • @lunachocken@lemm.ee
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    11•3 months ago

    That green look so green you could probably use the egg as a green screen

    Therefore an eggscreen

    • @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      1•3 months ago

      I think he got them from a guy named Sam.

      But I want to know-- will be eat them on a train?

    • @IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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      3•3 months ago

  • @duhbasser@lemm.ee
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    11•3 months ago

    How do you even get your hands on a cassowary egg and not die a horrible death. Emu’s are chill as long as you’re a guy

  • @HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    56•3 months ago

    Collecting the cassowary eggs more often results in death

    • @CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world
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      42•3 months ago

      Hands off my eggs.

      • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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        25•3 months ago

        Or what, you’ll cuddle me?

        • @CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world
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          35•3 months ago

          Yes, with my snuggle-talons. It’s a once in a lifetime experience.

          • @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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            7•3 months ago

            Oh. I thought we were gonna make more eggs

            • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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              3•3 months ago

              Allegedly.

      • @Rooskie91@discuss.online
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        16•3 months ago

        Lego my egg-o

  • @stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    41•3 months ago

    Fun fact, ostrich eggs are nearing The largest land eggs can physically get, so even the dinosaurs didn’t have much bigger eggs.

    • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      2•3 months ago

      Even the land whale?

    • @twice_hatch@midwest.social
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      8•3 months ago

      Tell me about whale eggs? 😯

      • @stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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        2•3 months ago

        .

    • Captain Aggravated
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      14•3 months ago

      What’s the limiting factor?

      • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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        13•3 months ago

        Here is what I found:

        • The shell must be strong enough to support the egg’s weight and protect the embryo, but thin enough for the chick to break through when hatching.
        • As size increases, the weight grows cubically (volume), but shell strength only increases quadratically (surface area), so there’s a point where the shell would have to be too thick to hatch from.
        • The distance from the shell to the center increases.
        • Oxygen diffusion becomes inefficient, and the embryo could suffocate.
        • Larger eggs are harder to keep at a uniform temperature.
        • Birds incubating the eggs would need to generate and distribute more heat, which is physically demanding.
        • @whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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          2•3 months ago

          Last 3 points millions of years ago the planet was much warmer with a lot more oxygen so for dinosaurs they would be moot.

          • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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            2•3 months ago

            Even with it being much warmer I believe it would still be difficult to keep at a uniform temperature.

            • @whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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              1•3 months ago

              Maybe it wasn’t as difficult as we think?

              • Victor
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                4•3 months ago

                Maybe nothing is 🤯

        • @tamal3@lemmy.world
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          3•3 months ago

          Any info on why both are GREEN? That’s unexpected. Camouflage, maybe?

          • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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            3 months ago

            I am not an eggspert but after a quick search it seems many bird eggs are green in colour due to a pigment called biliverdin.

            Interestingly verde is green in Spanish.

            • @bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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              A lot of biological and other scientific terms are actually Latin or some mix of it. Bili means “Bile”. Sources say “verd” in this case comes from French verd an old way to say green (Modern: vert/verte), but in any case the French words still derive from Latin viridis.

              Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and a few other minor languages are all descendants of Latin collectively called the Romance Languages. Speakers of one can often understand a lot of any other of the languages or Latin. Not completely mind you, but enough to get some meaning. Spanish speakers can understand a lot of written Portuguese (but not so much spoken due to pronunciation differences), Italian and Spanish speakers can almost have a conversation spoken or written. Portuguese/Italian/Spanish speakers will have a harder time with French though, they will recognize many written words but not enough to really call it totally understandable, and almost nothing spoken. Etc, etc.

      • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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        29•3 months ago

        If I had to guess it’d be the ability for oxygen to diffuse through the shell and reach the embryo?

        • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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          42•3 months ago

          I got curious and your assumption is correct for one of the limiting factors.

          Here is what I found:

          • The shell must be strong enough to support the egg’s weight and protect the embryo, but thin enough for the chick to break through when hatching.
          • As size increases, the weight grows cubically (volume), but shell strength only increases quadratically (surface area), so there’s a point where the shell would have to be too thick to hatch from.
          • The distance from the shell to the center increases.
          • Oxygen diffusion becomes inefficient, and the embryo could suffocate.
          • Larger eggs are harder to keep at a uniform temperature.
          • Birds incubating the eggs would need to generate and distribute more heat, which is physically demanding.
          • @coaxil@lemm.ee
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            2•3 months ago

            Appreciate the share, that’s awesome info

          • Victor
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            4•3 months ago

            Didn’t think I would find egg facts so interesting… Cool!

            • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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              3 months ago

              That’s eggcellent and I’m eggstatic that you enjoyed. Come back next Easter for more egg facts.

              • Victor
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                2•3 months ago

                Benedict!

                I don’t think I’m doing this right.

          • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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            2•3 months ago

            I never even considered that but it makes total sense. Thanks for the great post.

            • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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              No problem. I get curious myself so figure it nice to share with people that don’t tell me they’re not interested in useless facts.

          • Max
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            1•3 months ago

            I think point two may be wrong. The strength of a shell should be proportional to its thickness, which would scale linearly with its size (assuming the shell got thicker in proportion to the size). There’s definitely a point where a self supporting egg requires very thick shells like you said, but the scaling law you gave uses the wrong change.

          • @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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            5•3 months ago

            What’s your sources? Begging your pardon, that looks like a perfectly standard GPT answer.

    • @Fabian@lemmy.zip
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      Why is that?

      • @dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Here is what I found:

        • The shell must be strong enough to support the egg’s weight and protect the embryo, but thin enough for the chick to break through when hatching.
        • As size increases, the weight grows cubically (volume), but shell strength only increases quadratically (surface area), so there’s a point where the shell would have to be too thick to hatch from.
        • The distance from the shell to the center increases.
        • Oxygen diffusion becomes inefficient, and the embryo could suffocate.
        • Larger eggs are harder to keep at a uniform temperature.
        • Birds incubating the eggs would need to generate and distribute more heat, which is physically demanding.
  • @Kalladblog@lemmy.world
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    2•3 months ago

    They both look like avocados to me

  • @twice_hatch@midwest.social
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    8•3 months ago

    The bright one has a natural QR code

  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆
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    42•3 months ago

    Hmmm…

    • @wabafee@lemmy.world
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      7•3 months ago

      First thought

    • Smee
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      4•3 months ago

      That’s some strange looking pears, that’s for sure.

  • @Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world
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    26•3 months ago

    I too don’t know my left from right but the dark green is an emu egg

    • @ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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      18•3 months ago

      Turns out you are right! I was just copying the caption, but I’ll fix it.

  • @UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works
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    23•3 months ago

    Wait till you see the Kiwi egg

    • @betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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      50•3 months ago

      These ones must be hard-boiled.

      • @jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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        39•3 months ago

        Used to be my favorite t-shirt…

        • Zythox
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          9•3 months ago

          • The Ramen Dutchman
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            2•3 months ago

            Who shaves a kiwi fruit?

            • @milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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              4•3 months ago

              Don’t want to choke on the feathers.

        • Max
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          1•3 months ago

          Reminds me of https://www.timandraka.com/

        • @MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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          1•3 months ago

          Bruh…

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    13•3 months ago

    Someone gave me an emu egg years ago, and I proudly displayed it for a long time. Then I got cats, and realized quickly that I should put it away.

  • don
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    5•3 months ago

    That cassowary egg is moving

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      8•3 months ago

      Not pictured: The angry cassowary mama just offscreen about to eviscerate this person

  • Biskii
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    2•3 months ago

    Halloween gonna be wild

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