• Each year, the birds lay their eggs near the site of an old swimming pool on Longsands beach in Tynemouth.

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  • Researchers have hope for tiny parasitic wasps from Asia, which scientists are studying to see if they can be hungrily effective if introduced in the U.S. The wasps lay their eggs within the stink bugs' own egg masses.

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  • 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.

    FORBES: Audacious Birds

  • After they mate, the females lay eggs in trees and the adults die.

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  • Placental mammals - as opposed to the kind that lay eggs, such as the platypus, or carry young in pouches, such as the kangaroo - are an extraordinarily diverse group of animals with more than 5, 000 species today.

    BBC: Earliest placental mammal ancestor pinpointed

  • Dr Jaisson reckons that the enormous size of the eggs is the main reason why each individual can only lay two eggs at a time she probably does not have the capacity to lay more.

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  • Female sturgeon don't become sexually mature until their 20s and spawn about every four years, so the spawning season, in which they surface from the depths to lay their eggs on rocky shores, is an extremely important time for the species.

    WSJ: Standing Guard for the Sturgeon

  • Experts have warned it is not possible for the birds to lay again this season to replace the eggs that have been stolen.

    BBC: Thieves raid osprey nests

  • Cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other species including dunnocks, reed warblers and meadow pipits.

    BBC: Manx birdwatchers asked to listen out for cuckoos

  • Beneath the first of the Sisters, my eye was caught by a clutch of grey flints that lay together like eggs right at the foot of the cliff.

    BBC: England��s ghostly South Downs Way

  • The classic distinction between golden eggs and the geese that lay them fell into disfavor in 1969, the era of go-go stock funds.

    FORBES: Goose Eggs

  • He said wet weather makes it harder for the adults to lay eggs, and also washes any larvae away before it can hatch.

    BBC: Purple hairstreak butterfly numbers hit by wet weather

  • Remarkably, though, when it comes time to lay their own eggs, the female of the species will typically cross the ocean to return to precisely the same beach where she may have hatched 15 years earlier.

    CNN: Race to save the leatherback turtle

  • Because peregrine falcons don't build nests but lay their eggs on a flat surface, officials with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey started protecting the eggs several years ago by building nesting boxes on the George Washington and the other bridges the authority operates.

    WSJ: 4 falcon chicks living on NY-NJ bridge are banded

  • But asexual ants of other species either rely on one or a few individuals to lay eggs, or else only the younger ants do it.

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  • Lake sturgeon, he said, once populated the river thanks to rocks and boulders that created spots to lay eggs in well-oxygenated water that was safe from other predators.

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  • The journey takes them, for instance, to Taganak, one of the Turtle Islands, where the creatures (oblivious to such niceties as national boundaries) heave themselves ashore to lay their eggs.

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