Celebrity eagle couple Jackie and Shadow are preparing their nest for a potential new clutch of eggs, which, in past years, ...

The number of eggs a bird lays — its clutch size — varies greatly among species. You might think every species should simply lay lots of eggs because that would increase the odds of more young birds ...

If you were a small-to-medium-sized creature during the ancient Jurassic or Cretaceous periods, you definitely wouldn’t have wanted the shadow of a pterosaur to appear on the ground beneath you. With ...

A behind the scenes look at carefully setting up a fresh clutch of eggs to give them the best chance to hatch successfully ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. Large clutch size is unambiguously an ancestral state in reptiles. However, females of several lizard lineages lay just one or two eggs per ...

Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow have for years been the stars of a reality show set in a soaring pine-tree penthouse above Big Bear Lake. Yet it came as an unexpected surprise this week when devoted ...

Imagine going scuba diving on a beautiful day, drifting through the calm, blue waters when all of a sudden you come across an enormous, gooey ball. That’s what happened to a group of divers off the ...

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Photo shows that a lapwing is fighting to expel a snake when the snake attempts to feast on the lapwing's clutch of eggs in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. (Source: xinhuanet.com) Photo ...

To my mind a clutch of colorful eggs nestled in straw or grass is the ultimate spring symbol of hope and wonderful expectation. That and the smell of vinegar make up my first Easter memory. I never ...

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