When we think of mammals, we usually think of animals that give birth to live babies, like lions or humans. But there’s a ...

Some duck egg shells come in colors reminiscent of chicken eggs. Marc Metzer says, "Some of our breeds have a high percentage ...

AP About half of the newborn birds are female — with hens beginning to lay their own eggs at the age of six months. New York state had sanitized 15,000 eggs from Crescent Duck Farm at an off ...

Duck eggs are most common in Asia, where non-chicken poultry species lay 10% of the continent's eggs, and where 89% of the world's duck population is kept. For those of us exclusively familiar ...

Here are eight bird species who lay colourful and eye catching eggs. The American Robin is known for its striking blue eggs. The robin’s eggs are often speckled with darker flecks, adding an extra ...

Stephen Horst: Hen will lay a nest full of eggs and stop laying ... a temperature profile we start out much higher with duck eggs, 100. 4 and then during hatching, we’re down at about 98.

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling array of features. Not only does it have that iconic duck bill, it lays eggs like a bird or reptile but feeds milk to its young like a mammal.