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Rather than simply dissecting frogs or drawing fallopian tubes, a group of Japanese students have successfully managed to birth a chicken in their biology class with just an egg, a glass and some cling film.

The scientific experiment of ‘hatching’ a shell-less egg is first described in a paper published in Japan’s Journal of Poultry Science in 2014 and it takes only 21 days to complete.

In the video, the teenagers are seen breaking the fertilised eggs into a cup lined with both cling film and a chemical solution used to aid growth and calcium supplementation.

A separate solution used to enhance development is held at the bottom of the cup and a plastic cover is placed on top before incubation.




By day three the heart has already formed, and by the end of the video a small chick is hurriedly running across the floor.

So the next time you fancy scrambling some eggs, maybe grow a living chicken instead?