Flight Ability of Birds Affects the Shape of Their Eggs (IMAGE)

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Flight Ability of Birds Affects the Shape of Their Eggs

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A gull chick begins to hatch. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 23 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.C. Stoddard at Princeton University in Princeton, and colleagues was titled, "Avian egg shape: Form, function, and evolution."

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M.C. Stoddard

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