Picture a bird egg: Perhaps it’s the cocoa brown of a free-range chicken. Or a robin’s creamy blue-green. If it’s a quail egg, it has inky speckles. Those colors and variations, according to a new ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. If you come across a bird nest there’s usually a pretty good way of telling what kind of ...

For a unique and delicious alternative to dyed eggs that are mainly used as decorations, try pickling eggs. When peeled hard-boiled eggs are left to soak in flavorful and colorful pickling brines, ...

Dinosaurs laid colorful eggs. Birds lay colorful eggs. You do the math. But really though: A study from last year found that oviraptors, a dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, laid blue-green eggs, ...

The rainbow of hues seen in modern bird eggs probably evolved in birds’ dinosaur ancestors, which had eggs with colorful and speckled shells. That’s according to a new study of fossil eggs in the ...

It seems like everyone has eggs on the brain these days. Whether it's due to the protein-laden item's rising prices or the ominous bird flu that's affecting poultry, people across the country are ...

There are times when I wouldn't cringe if called old-fashioned (very few, I might add, but this is one of them). That's after I fill up pots with red cabbage leaves or yellow onion skins and turn up ...

It was nature’s version of an Easter egg hunt. Dr. Claire Spottiswoode, a professor at the University of Cape Town who studies avian (bird) brood parasites, was working in Zambia to learn more about ...

The colorful, speckled eggs of modern birds are an innovation inherited from their nonavian dinosaur ancestors. Researchers found no traces of pigment in eggshells belonging to a long-necked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eggs-perts are weighing in on the color of your egg yolk. As Americans down an average of nearly 300 eggs a year, you’ve likely ...

Decorating Easter eggs is a long-standing tradition said to be a symbol for rebirth. For my kids, decorating eggs is a symbol of creativity and a test of Mom's patience. This year, we thought beyond ...

It can be jarring to crack an egg and see a bright orange yolk instead of the expected pale yellow, or vice versa. Americans eat on average nearly 300 eggs a year, making it likely you’ll stare down ...