Snakes, like most reptiles in the world, are oviparous. This means that rather than producing live young ones, the way mammals do, snakes produce an immature single cell — an egg. Most snakes follow ...

Africa's Senegal coucal, a ground-dwelling bird, expertly hunts snakes, its primary prey. While snakes rely on venom or ...

Eggs are among nature’s most fascinating progenating creations, varying widely in size and shape across the animal kingdom. They represent the earliest stage of life for many creatures, from tiny ...

The results revealed a wide array of fossil egg colors and speckle patterns. Deinonychus and troodontid eggs were blue-green, ...

Pollinators from birds and butterflies to bees all need a place to stay over winter. You can make your very own pollinator ...

Dot’s heading for the hills again. Oh don’t worry, this is actually pretty typical for the chicken. She’s has a daily ritual of taking off the second that her human opens up the coop in the morning ...

Hickman's Family Farms, Arizona’s largest egg producer, sold its business after a devastating avian flu outbreak forced the ...

Now is the time to plan next year’s garden with butterflies and moths in mind. Though less efficient pollinators than bees, ...

Discover how insects and other small creatures rely on leaf litter to survive the winter and how this supports local ecology.