Look at the nail of your pinky finger. That’s about the width of the biggest known insect egg, which belongs to the earth-borer beetle Bolboleaus hiaticollis. The smallest egg, from the wasp ...

For years, scientists have tried to crack a mathematical mystery: Is there an equation that can perfectly describe each and every bird egg? Variable shell shapes complicated things. But it turns out ...

What’s in an egg? Your breakfast omelet aside, the answer is simple: birds. But not every bird is alike—and neither are their eggs. Look closely, and you’ll see a wide variety of egg shapes and sizes, ...

Haumea is one of the fastest rotating large objects in our solar system. A single day on the dwarf planet is only about 4 Earth hours long. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

When Mary Caswell Stoddard started measuring bird eggs from hundreds of species, she wasn’t expecting to learn that most eggs are not egg-shaped. Think about an egg and you’ll probably conjure up an ...

Scientists may have finally discovered a sort of "Grand Unified Hypothesis" that explains what may determine the plethora of diverse egg shapes for all bird species A newly published study indicates ...