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

While relatively small and plain-looking, black-headed duck females possess plenty of guts. Rather than building a nest, they will instead lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. They target ...

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 ...

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.