“We think we’ve come up with a problem for the oil shortage.”
“You’ve what?”
“Look at these duck eggs. It took us a bit of finagling to do it, and more than a few changes at the genetic level, but now instead of needing calcium and laying calcium-rich eggs… they take in a variety of supplements and lay plastic eggs. The shells can then be recycled for their plastic, and the egg inside is still perfectly viable. There’s just one flaw…”
“There’s always a flaw.”
“In order to get out of the eggs, the hatchlings needed…
“You made duck Unicorns.”
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Duck unicorns! XD I want to draw them…
I was kinda hoping you might 🙂
Are the horns on their foreheads, like horse unicorns?
That’s what I was picturing,a stubby little horn. Or maybe a second one on their bill, like a rhinoceros?
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Thank you so much!
That’s *adorable*.
LOL!
Would duck unicorns be poultry or red meat? 😀
*giggle* Good question!
Bwahaha! That’s awesome. Don’t (some) birds have an egg tooth or something like that, for just that reason?
I thoguht about that, decided the plastic egg needed something harder
Duck narwhal!
😀
Ba ha ha! Oh man, mad science, solving the world’s problems with bizarre new creatures!
😀
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