Latest Eggshell Stories

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? It is an age old question that has spurred on many a debate, but now a group of scientists might actually be close to having an answer.Using cutting-edge technology, researchers from the Universities of Sheffield and Warwick in England believe that they have discovered the answer by studying eggshells. Scientists had long theorized that a chicken protein known as ovocledidin-17 (OC-17) played a crucial role in the formation of an egg's shell, but...