Sentences with phrase «group lays eggs»
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A report by consumer group Choice found the average cost of cage eggs was 43 cents per 100g, while the cost of barn - laid eggs was 80 cents and free - range eggs 93 cents.
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«The platypus belongs to the monotreme family, a small group of mammals that lay eggs and produce milk to feed their young.
In its wake arose a group of egg - laying reptile precursors called archosaurs, the common ancestors of dinosaurs, flying reptiles known as pterosaurs, and crocodiles.
It's an evolutionary U-turn: a group of egg - laying lizards evolved from live - bearing ancestors, which are in turn descended from even older egg - layers
LMU biologists led by Professor Nicolas Gompel, in a collaboration with the groups of Dr. Benjamin Prud «homme (CNRS, France) and Professor Ilona Grunwald Kadow (Technical University, Munich), have begun to explore the genetic basis for this unusual egg - laying behavior.
The secret, the team reports in the 17 August issue of Science, was that eggs laid by females in cooperative groups were 5 % smaller than those laid by females who bred in pairs, and their yolks had 12 % less lipids and 13 % less protein.
(The placental mammals are one of three major groups of mammals; the other two are the egg - laying monotremes and the pouched marsupials.)
The analysis grouped the egg - laying Australian monotremes — the platypus and echidna — with the early southern mammals.
A skeptical and stressed Congress is entitled to wonder whether scientists are the geese that lay golden eggs or just another group of pigs at the trough.
WNBA superstar Sue Bird publicly announced that she was gay and dating Seattle Reign and USWNT star soccer player Megan Rapinoe in an article Birds (Aves) are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard - shelled eggs, a high metabolic
Rescue groups take on pregnant moms, birds lay eggs or may become egg bound (whether the eggs are fertile or not), farm cats deliver in your barn, veterinary clinics manage pregnancies, deliveries, and c - sections... Even the humans in the home may have a baby someday!
Every May, Cancún pioneer resort group Royal Resorts prepares to welcome its very special summer visitors, the sea turtles that lay their eggs on the beaches in front of its hotels in Cancún, Puerto Morelos and the Riviera Maya.