Science Talks | Megan Davey – The day in the life of a scientist – chicken finger, dinosaur toes

by judyrobertson | Mar 27, 2021 | Learner, Sciences, Senior Phase

Watch Megan Davey explain her work with chicken embryos. Megan is a developmental biologist, which means understanding how we grow from a single fertilised cell into a walking talking, digesting, thinking human with trillions of cells all doing specialised functions. To study this Megan uses chicken embryos- but what does studying a chicken tell me about humans? And where do dinosaurs come into the story?