For a unique and delicious alternative to dyed eggs that are mainly used as decorations, try pickling eggs. When peeled hard-boiled eggs are left to soak in flavorful and colorful pickling brines, ...

Dinosaurs laid colorful eggs. Birds lay colorful eggs. You do the math. But really though: A study from last year found that oviraptors, a dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, laid blue-green eggs, ...

Decorating Easter eggs is a long-standing tradition said to be a symbol for rebirth. For my kids, decorating eggs is a symbol of creativity and a test of Mom's patience. This year, we thought beyond ...

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 story of that discovery begins just over 100 years ago, when swashbuckling fossil hunter Roy Chapman Andrews first dug up a clutch of dinosaur eggs in intact nests in Mongolia. (Although hailed as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rainbow of hues seen in modern bird eggs probably evolved in birds' dinosaur ancestors, which had eggs with colorful and speckled shells. That's according to a new study of fossil eggs in the ...

There are times when I wouldn't cringe if called old-fashioned (very few, I might add, but this is one of them). That's after I fill up pots with red cabbage leaves or yellow onion skins and turn up ...

An egg yolk’s color comes predominantly from carotenoids, a group of pigments produced by lots of living things...egg-cept ...