Birds were given different colors, squawks and abilities such as extra density, acceleration and the power to lay explosive eggs in the air before winging off their parabolas from the counterforce of laying eggs.

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The government is therefore interested in discovering more about the beasts, so as not to kill the shark that lays the golden egg (though one recent finding is that whale sharks, unlike many of their relatives, actually give birth to live young, rather than laying eggs).

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Red kites in Oxfordshire are laying their eggs "unusually late" due to the unseasonably cold weather in March, a conservation group said.

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Even worse, Lucy "started laying scrambled eggs a month later, " says Mrs.

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The birds of prey at the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) are laying their eggs about 10 days later than normal.

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In addition, with cuckoos laying their eggs in other birds nests, there may be issues with their key hosts, such as the meadow pipit and dunnock, being in decline.

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So why would anyone want to kill that goose laying the golden eggs by insisting on raising tax collections?

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They reproduce rapidly, laying up to eight eggs a day.

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After laying a number of infertile eggs, the mother laid fertile ones in August, which Mr Harris incubated for 90 days.

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