Whale Egg: Difference between revisions

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In fiction, it's often simplified into laying eggs like a chicken, [[You Fail Biology Forever|even if the biology of the creature in question should indicate otherwise]]. This is very useful in bypassing the complications of an [[Interspecies Romance]] and the [[Squick]] of a live birth, which is also why it's a common implementation of [[G-Rated Sex]].

Popular [[Mons]] trope, pretty much every Mons series uses it. Especially the ones that originate in [[Video Game|Video Games]], where it also serves to simplify the breeding mechanics -- see [[Hot Skitty On Wailord Action]].

Popular [[Mons]] trope, pretty much every Mons series uses it. Especially the ones that originate in [[Video Game|Video Games]], where it also serves to simplify the breeding mechanics -- see [[Hot Skitty-On-Wailord Action]].

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** The scientists were also so squeamish (canonically!) as to have to invent [[G-Rated Sex|kisspopping]], so whatever process results in the eggs, they likely found it more emotionally palatable than seeing a miniature version of the Norns (et.al.) being shoved out of an orifice of another.

* In earlier ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters]]'' games, your monsters laid eggs, regardless of what they were.

* See: Every single ''[[Pokémon]]'' ever. Including the [[Hot Skitty On Wailord Action|whales.]] And the plants. And the ''rocks''. And the ''ghosts''. And the ''eggs''.

* See: Every single ''[[Pokémon]]'' ever. Including the [[Hot Skitty-On-Wailord Action|whales.]] And the plants. And the ''rocks''. And the ''ghosts''. And the ''eggs''.

** [[Cosmic Egg|And the god too. Apparently, the first thing to ever exist was the egg of Arceus! And the age-old question is put to rest.]]

** Though, strangely enough, there is one exception. A diary entry in the Cinnabar laboratory states that "Mew gave birth." Mew is also among a [[Olympus Mons|subset]] of Pokémon that are functionally genderless and never lay eggs.

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* Beluga caviar sounds like this, but sadly, it's actually eggs from a fish called the Beluga Sturgeon.

* Technically every species that doesn't reproduce asexually do come from fertilized eggs. It's just in the case of most mammals that the infant is incubated in the mother's womb instead of in a shell. (Yes, plants come from eggs too! We just call them seeds.)

* Here's some weirdness for ya. A good portion of mammalian DNA is non-sequencing, or "junk" DNA. That doesn't mean it doesn't do anything, though. For example, some of that is very important in allowing a fertilized egg to attach itself to the uterus. Some of that comes from [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus~~ Endogenous Retroviruses] which basically means that an ancestor was infected with a virus that incorporated itself into their genetic code and passed it on to all future generations. Putting all that together has lead scientists to theorize that it was a viral infection that allowed modern fetuses to bypass the mother's immune system and necessitate live births as opposed to eggs, splitting reptiles and mammals.

* Here's some weirdness for ya. A good portion of mammalian DNA is non-sequencing, or "junk" DNA. That doesn't mean it doesn't do anything, though. For example, some of that is very important in allowing a fertilized egg to attach itself to the uterus. Some of that comes from [[wikipedia:Endogenous retrovirus|Endogenous Retroviruses]] which basically means that an ancestor was infected with a virus that incorporated itself into their genetic code and passed it on to all future generations. Putting all that together has lead scientists to theorize that it was a viral infection that allowed modern fetuses to bypass the mother's immune system and necessitate live births as opposed to eggs, splitting reptiles and mammals.

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