Episode
Nature: The Egg: Life’s Perfect Invention
Overview
How is an egg made? Why are they the shape they are? And perhaps most importantly, why lay an egg at all? Step by step as the egg hatches, host David Attenborough reveals the wonder behind these incredible miracles of nature.
Details
- Series
- Nature
- Season
- Season 37
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2019-04-10
- Runtime
- 53 min
Episode context
The Egg: Life’s Perfect Invention is Episode 12 in Season 37 of Nature. It aired on 2019-04-10. The runtime is 53 min.
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