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On 5 June 2016, the Facebook page Spoon & Tamago published a video purportedly showing a group of high school students hatching a chick without an eggshell for the first time in history: Although the video does show a chick being hatched outside an eggshell, this footage does not capture the first time in history that this feat was accomplished. Also, the pictured technique was not developed by the group of high school students seen in the clip. The video features Professors Yutaka Tahara and Katsuya Obara demonstrating a shell-less culture system, a process in which a chicken egg is artificially fertilized and placed in a clear sterile vessel, and the fetus is developed in an incubator, as described in a paper published by the Journal of Poultry Science in 2014: Not only does this footage not constitute the first time in history that the feat of eggless chicken hatching has been accomplished, it doesn't even constitute the first time the event has been captured on camera:
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