For decades, chick culling, the routine killing of newly hatched male chicks because they cannot lay eggs and are not considered profitable by the egg industry, has been treated as an unavoidable part ...

Eggs may look simple from the outside, but each one can hold valuable information about life, health and future production. For hatcheries, that hidden information matters. A single egg may contain a ...

A biotech company that aims to resurrect lost creatures said Tuesday it has hatched live chicks in an artificial environment—a development that was met with mixed reviews from scientists and critics ...

Whether blue as a robin’s egg, or speckled like a Carolina wren’s, the humble eggshell is a masterpiece of natural design. For years, scientists studying evolution and developmental biology have tried ...