Sentences with phrase «laid eggs the size»

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Birds that eventually rejected parasite eggs still laid an average - sized clutch of their own — even though the alien eggs remained at the top of the nest for several critical days before being buried.

The chicken - sized Maleo lays a huge egg, which it buries in the sand at its home on the Indonesia [n] island of Sulawesi.

Lice are small insects about the size of a grain of rice that lay small whitish or brownish eggs called nits.

The sparrows threw out foreign objects of a different size more often during the egg - laying stage but they were more careful to remove unusual white objects during the incubation stage,» says Hoi.

Many of these survivors were early amniotes, such as early reptiles, whose generally larger size relative to early amphibians allowed them to travel longer distances, and their ability to lay eggs meant they were not confined to watery habitats.

There, the common lizards laid white, leathery eggs the size of aspirin capsules in rock crevices.

The researchers looked at correlations between egg shape and traits associated with the species of bird, including nest type and location, clutch size (the number of eggs laid at a time), diet and flight ability.

The pair looked at fossils of 21 ancient bird species and estimated the size of egg they could have comfortably laid, and their body weight.

The reproductive biology of the tsetse fly is particularly unconventional: unlike most insects that lay eggs, it gives birth to live young that have developed to a large size by feeding on specialised glands in the mother.

The nutrient - rich substance allows her to grow to one - and - half times the size of an ordinary bee with a fully developed reproductive system, capable of laying up to two thousand eggs per day.

Unfortunately heartworms, which at their adult size can be as much as six inches long or more, can lay thousands of eggs, and this infestation can continue to increase over a long period of time, even over several years.

Flea eggs are small white particles, similar in size to flea dirt, that fleas lay in a pet's hair coat.

Each lays eggs, and then takes care of the double - sized brood.

The female lays one to three eggs with a usual clutch size of two eggs.

These snails grow to the size of a baseball, can lay 1,200 eggs every year, survive all sorts of extreme temperatures, have no natural predators, and eat 500 crops, plus the sides of houses.

The giant, ancient, endangered turtles, some the size of a Smart Car, have until now only been known to nest in four spots in the United States — with about three dozen females a year laying eggs on beaches along the east coast of Florida and slightly larger nesting populations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

[3] About 800 to 1000 eggs are laid in clumps the size of a walnut.

Outbuilding features one goose that only lays off - white eggs, a harp that randomly begins playing without assistance and a hooligan hat 20 sizes too large for even a 12 - foot - tall NBA forward.