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For wealthy Bronze or Iron Age southern Europeans, nothing beat an ostrich eggshell cup. It is known that these coveted luxury items were imported from the Levant and Egypt, but until recently, little has been understood about the ancient ostrich egg

Humans age gradually, but some animals do all their aging in a rush at the end of life, while others don’t age at all, and a few can even age backward. The variety of aging patterns in nature should be a caution sign to anyone inclined to generalize—

Anyone who doubts that genes can specify identity might well have arrived from another planet and failed to notice that the humans come in two fundamental variants: male and female. Cultural critics, queer theorists, fashion photographers, and Lady G

You can count, but what about animals? They don’t go to school, but some count in many of the same ways you do. Let’s see how! Which picture has more apples? You can tell, even if you don’t count every one. Some animals do that too. Dogs will cho

Scraped the last $8.48from the glass jar.Your day’s worth of tips at the nail salon. Enoughfor one hit. Enoughto be good till noon butthese hands alreadyblurring. The money a weird hummingbird caughtin my fingers. I take outthe carton of eggs. Crack

Among living creatures, birds are the poster animal for diversity with almost 10,000 different species. All birds have feathers and beaks, but they lay eggs like reptiles and are warm-blooded like mammals. Some birds fly, and others walk, run, or eve

Jerry Coyne is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. His research on population and evolutionary genetics has been widely published in professional and trade journals and his 2009 book, Why Evolution Is True, established him as a le

Toby Walkinton (3) certainly looks like one very hungry caterpillar! Our Cute Kid of the week wins a copy of Green Eggs and Ham (HarperCollins, rrp $12.99) by Dr Seuss. When Sam-I-Am persists in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat a plate of green egg

For two weeks every summer, my parents rented a holiday apartment by the beach in Vlora, an old coastal town along the Adriatic. It was known as Aulona in Greek and Roman times, and was a special place to visit even during 1980s communist Albania. Au

Sack sausage biscuits smeared with maple-mustard sauce and topped with runny egg yolks. Joysticks of deep-fried chicken dusted with Szechuan spices. Hand pies gushing with strawberry preserves. Joyland, Sean Brock’s new hypercasual café focused on ha

After several years of raising chickens, and with many broods of chicks under our belts, I thought I would outline some of our experiences in hatching chicks using an incubator vs. doing it the natural way — that is, by a broody hen. Should you go fo