Post Cafe: Students Successfully Hatch An Egg Outside Its Shell

Most of us ask, which comes first, the chicken or the egg? When such questions are asked, everyone has a different tale to tell. Some people say according to the bible, the chicken came first, because God created all things, animals, beasts and all. Therefore, the chicken was created to reproduce and
thus came the egg. Others would say, according to science, micro-organisms came together and after eons, the chicken was created. Well, no one can really say which came first, as the egg was gotten from the chicken and the chicken from the egg.

A group of Japanese high-school students however came together for a scientific experiment and wanted to prove that even though we cannot specifically say who comes first between the chicken and the egg, we can say that the egg does not need its shell to hatch!

The scientific experiment worked over a period of 21 days as shown in the video below. The method has been detailed in a research paper published in the Japanese Journal of Poultry Science.

In the video, students are seen cracking fertilized eggs into cling wrap filled with a chemical solution to aid growth suspended above the bottom of the cup.

Over the course of the video, viewers see a chicken's heart starting to grow on the third day and an embryo beginning to take shape on the fifth day. A week later, the veins of the embryo have spread through the yolk.

As more days go by the chick gains more limbs such as its feet and its beak.

In the footage filmed on Day 21, a curled-up baby bird is seen in the cling wrap.

The video then cuts to a baby chick running around on the floor.

Although the video claims it is 'the first time in history,' this is not the first time the technique has been demonstrated.

For years, scientists have been trying to find a way to gain access to baby chicks during development, not only to learn about the growth process, but also to study new regenerative medicine techniques.

The xperiment as viewed by various scientists appears to be genuine, as the method was previously published in a scientific journal called Journal of Poultry Science which is published in Japan.

Watch the video here: