Imagine the thrill of checking your nesting boxes daily and discovering a vibrant variety of chicken eggs in various colors.

In 2018, they reported in Nature that the eggs from at least some of the dinosaur ancestors of birds were colored. "As with many other characteristics, this is an attribute that evolved deep ...

“People more recently have done a lot of artificial selection and are breeding birds that lay different colored eggs,” says Blatchford. “They’ve come up with all different shades of ...

Q. I saw a photo of different kinds of bird eggs and noted not only the obvious, that smaller birds lay smaller eggs, but also that some bird eggs are elongate, whereas others are more rounded.

Sihek, a now-endangered bird returned to the wild in 2024, has laid wild eggs in ... low for eggs of a different variety — and while they might not be as shiny or brightly colored, these tiny ...