There’s only one thing in this world shaped like an egg. Not exactly spherical, not exactly an oval, it’s kind of hard to describe what an egg looks like. “Asymmetric tapered oval”?

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Yet, culinary queen Mary Berry has divulged her own method for ensuring poached eggs turn out with a "perfect oval shape" without breaking into a sweat. READ MORE: Teeth whitening solution ...

The team came up with mathematical formulas to describe almost 50,000 eggs from 1,400 species, plotting their shapes on a graph. (Take National Geographic's backyard bird quiz.) The most oval egg?

Christopher Columbus brought what we recognize today as the oval-laying chicken to the Americas in 1493. But most eggs in the bird world aren’t even, well, egg-shaped, Ed Yong reported in 2017.

So the very-oval eggs of these cliff-nesting birds will roll in a tight little circle, and be less likely to roll out of the nest. Another advantage of egg-shaped eggs is that they fit together ...

If a Hollywood exec dreamed up an egg, it would look like a chicken's: immensely popular, with an unblemished complexion. But the universe of wild bird eggs is far weirder and more diverse than ...

The answer surprised her. "Egg shape appears to be related to flight ability in birds," Stoddard says. Take chickens. They're lousy fliers, with more oval-shaped eggs. But eggs from long-distance ...

Mary Berry has divulged her foolproof technique for achieving perfectly oval-shaped poached eggs, and it's surprisingly straightforward. Whether you're aiming to elevate your breakfast or crafting ...

First of all, what is the shape of a chicken egg? It's not round or spherical, like some reptile eggs. It's not oval either. It's an asymmetrical mix of oval and tapered, with one end bigger than ...