Questions tagged [eggs]

This applies to most if not all reptiles, but I'll write about leopard geckos since that's what I know. Incubation temperature of the eggs makes a big difference in the development of the gecko. Obviously excessively high or low temperatures will…

The egg of a large modern bird is a very large cell, not the largest possible biological cell since there are very long nerves in squid, but it's likely the most massive modern cell. But, what about the cells of prehistory? Many dinosaurs were far…

I have chickens at home, and yesterday while removing the eggs I felt that they were quite warm. This seems to make sense, because the chicken has been brooding on it in order to make it hatch. However now I wonder: next to chickens and/or other…