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, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. When it comes to egg art, modern birds have the market cornered ...

Eggshell color comes from the hen’s breed—not nutrition. See why brown vs. white eggs cost differently and how feed, not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...