Updates on issues of interest to the agricultural community and the public.

When most people think of ducks, they probably think of birds that quack and live on water. Well, most ducks don’t quack and some nest in trees! Let’s take a close look at two of our local tree ...

What do we really know about how oviraptors—bird-like but flightless dinosaurs—hatched their eggs? Did they use environmental ...

Scientists reveal how oviraptor dinosaurs used sunlight and body heat to hatch eggs and why their nesting method differs from ...

Seventy million years ago, a feathered, flightless dinosaur known as an oviraptor squatted over a carefully arranged ring of ...

Pick up some of these adorable Target Easter basket stuffers that won't break the bank, from Peeps lollipops to butterfly bubble wands.

Gold Shaw Farm provides a comprehensive biological overview of the entire gosling development cycle from egg to pasture.

It’s time for March madness again, and I am not referring to college basketball’s big tournament March Madness, which is ...

In reptiles, a simple temperature change can determine whether an egg develops into a male or female. This process is formally known as temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD), in which the sex ...

By now, most of us have seen our first robin of the year and also have seen and heard the flocks of geese heading north in their familiar V formation. My diaries tell me that both sightings are right ...