Eggs

Most of us love finding hidden gems scattered around us. From searching for Waldo in crowded illustrations to identifying Easter eggs in your favorite movies, there’s a certain type of joy in discovering something others usually fail to notice. If you’re snoopy enough, you might have noticed that the real world is also overflowing with these fun, disguised additions. In fact, there’s even a subreddit called "IRLEasterEggs,” where its members share and celebrate the art of finding such peculiar surprises. You can find…

Just in case you needed a new fear to keep you awake at night, here’s this possibly fanciful tale of arachnid infestation. A UK man claims to have gotten a gnarly swollen toe while on a cruise from having a wolf spider lay eggs inside it. Though the toe injury appears to be real enough, some experts have already cast doubt on the egg-laying part.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedThe man, identified as Colin Blake, seems to have first told his story to BBC Radio Scotland’s Drivetime. He and his wife had…

Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp.Over the last five years, agencies have employed a new seek-and-destroy strategy that uses turncoat carp to lead them to the fish's hotspot hideouts.Agency workers turn carp into double agents by capturing them, implanting transmitters and tossing them back. Floating receivers send real-time notifications when a tagged carp swims past. Carp are large fish with an even larger appetite.…

The discovery of Qianlong shouhu, a new dinosaur species, has led to the revelation that the first dinosaur eggs were likely leathery. This contributes significantly to our understanding of dinosaur reproductive evolution and the ancestral state of reptilian eggshells. (Reconstruction of egg nests containing fossilized embryos.) Credit: NICE VistudioA recent study on the newly discovered Qianlong shouhu, an early Jurassic sauropodomorph, suggests that the earliest dinosaur eggs had leathery shells. This finding, derived…

The following contains SPOILERS for Disney’s Wish.Wish is the newest musical adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios. Coming as it does in this 100th year of The Walt Disney Company, it’s maybe not surprising that Wish is a movie very much following in the footsteps of classic Disney, as it features a female protagonist, a magical villain and incredible music.Easter Eggs and fun references are nothing new in Disney movies, but Wish takes things to quite another level. The movie celebrates the Disney anniversary by…

Marvel comics, TV shows, and especially movies seem to have a requirement to emphasize the “what’s next” of it all, where the end of everything is also a tease for something else. Well, folks, Insomniac Games took that assignment, ran with it, and took a few extra laps just for good measure. Spider-Man 2, the triumphant sequel of one of the best games of 2018, is packed with teases and Easter eggs, all of which could be spun off into new games, half-sequels, or the ultimate finale of Spider-Man 3. We’ve got evil…

Disney Illusion Island is out now, and it serves as an excellent gateway to Metroidvania to get new players into the genre and gaming as a whole. As I highlighted in my three-and-a-half-star review, there’s still a fair bit in Disney Illusion Island to entertain more experienced players. I’m not just saying that’s the case in terms of game mechanics, but for references to other games as well. From an enemy to some vital game mechanics, these three references in Disney Illusion Island stuck out to me the most.…

Disneyland fans watching the new “Haunted Mansion” movie will be treated to a few extra laughs from the supernatural horror comedy when they spot Easter Egg tributes to the classic dark ride hidden in plain sight throughout the film. Movie trailers and preview screenings offer a host of hints about the visual nods and character references the “Haunted Mansion” film will make to the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland when the new Walt Disney Studios release hits theaters on Friday, July 28. SEE ALSO: This Haunted Mansion…

There's something about the seasons that seems to impact human reproduction for unknown reasons.A new study in Australia has found in vitro fertilization (IVF) is most successful when eggs are harvested in the summer.It doesn't seem to matter when the frozen embryo is actually transferred to a person's womb, only when it is originally collected.If eggs are retrieved in summer, the live birth rate is 31 percent; if eggs are collected in autumn, the live birth rate is 26 percent.Meanwhile, eggs collected in winter and…

The life of a crested newt defies explanation from the very start.Each year, once breeding season is done and dusted, each female lays a few hundred eggs, tucking every one individually into the leaves of pond plants to give them the best chance of a safe hatching.Yet no matter how careful she is, half of her brood will never see the light of day.When the Italian zoologist Mauro Rusconi first calculated this extreme death rate in crested newts (of the genus Triturus) in 1821, he was bewildered. Why would a female spend…