Scientist Urges Dormant Eggs to Life to Test Evolution
They found that eggs that had been trapped beneath the sediment years ago had never hatched, but miraculously, were still alive.
A little incubation and bingo, the eggs hatched into animals not as they appear today, but long ago when the eggs were first deposited on the floor of the lake. How they survived all that time is a great mystery.
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Furthermore, DNA analysis shows that the changes were passed on genetically from one generation to the next, until they were no longer needed, thus confirming that the researchers had caught evolution in the act.