Animals reproduce in a variety of fascinating ways. Some species, including humans and many other mammals, give birth to live ...

A woman who recently began keeping chickens was left in shock when she saw one of her hens had laid an egg almost twice the usual size. When she cracked it open, she was astounded to find a second, ...

Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality ...

Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...

European cuckoos lay very different eggs depending on the host species. Genetic analyses have revealed how this adaptation is inherited without leading to speciation. Bright blue, white, greenish, ...

A weekly report from the Agricultural Marketing Service highlights the impact of ongoing bird flu outbreaks by showing the losses of chickens that lay eggs due to bird flu in certain states. The ...