How Birds Get Oxygen Inside Their Eggs

A beautiful tour of the bizarre system that keeps chicks from suffocating before they hatch.
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What could go wrong by breathing pure oxygen? Beside that everything around you could explode.

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Good question! The chick does create some waste products as it grows (but not that much) - this gets collected outside its body in a special membrane called the allantois. This gets dehydrated and is discarded with the egg after hatching.

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