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 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of that discovery begins just over 100 years ago, when swashbuckling fossil hunter Roy Chapman Andrews first dug up a ...

After garnering worldwide attention last year for her research on the origins of egg color in birds, Yale paleontologist Jasmina Wiemann has taken a second look at her eggshells. Wiemann had found ...

In the spring, you might find fragmented blue eggshells sitting on the sidewalk, a sign that baby robins hatched somewhere up above. Taking the same walk 66 million years ago, you may have found a ...

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 ...

A new study says the colors found in modern birds’ eggs did not evolve independently, as previously thought, but evolved instead from dinosaurs. According to researchers at Yale, the American Museum ...

Since the time of Aristotle, humans have stood amazed by birds' dazzlingly colorful eggs, which range from creamy hues to the deepest reds, blues, and greens. But long before our love of robin's-egg ...

Some small dinosaurs sat on their eggs like birds to keep their growing babies warm and protect them as they developed. But what about bigger nesting dinosaurs? How does a beast weighing more than a ...

If you come across a bird nest there’s usually a pretty good way of telling what kind of feathered friend was responsible for it, even if the bird itself isn’t around. The color, size, and pattern of ...