Animal eggs

Eggs of some of the common birds effectively illustrate the great variety of egg size, color, and markings. Egg collecting is now forbidden by federal laws that protect songbirds. They should never be taken from the nest. As a rule, eggs that are laid in holes or in hollow trees are white. Those that are laid in exposed places have the “protective coloration” of spots and streaks that blend into the background and make them almost invisible to the predators that might eat them.

bird egg guide

Oviparous Animals

The 17 Bizarre Animal Eggs That Will Make You Glad To Be A Mammal, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: Shark Eggs, Jawfish Eggs, Giant Waterbug Eggs

We don’t visit the local Whole Foods very often, and we hadn’t inspected their loose selection of local eggs very closely. So we were in for a shock when we wandered over last night and realized that those giant greeny-blue ovals weren’t out-of-season melons, but honest-to-goodness emu eggs. What’s more, they’re local. More photos of outlandish eggs, fresh from the farm, below… Does your Whole Foods have a local egg bar?

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Vintage Ephemera: Eggs

A new family of caecilians, or legless amphibians marks a surprising (and slithery) discovery of a new vertebrate family.