By 
April Tucker
 | 
TED-Ed Original

The game-changing amniotic egg

350 million years ago eggs could not survive far from water therefore animals were water-bound. That is until the amniotic egg which allowed animals to live a fully terrestrial life. April Tucker peels back each layer of the amniotic egg revealing how truly extraordinary this evolutionary marvel is.

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