The basic workings of insect eggs, however, like the basics of any egg, are recognizable.

尽管形式多样，但虫卵的基本工作方式和鸟类的卵一样。

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No longer the small egg becomes a walking insect.

小虫卵不会再孵化成活虫了。

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But scientists at the Natural History Museum found an insect egg case inside the skull which they said proved the animal had not died on the moors.

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Within the next hour, tiny pewees and hefty puffbirds, insect-eating tyrants and egg-snatching toucans had paraded in front of my cabin, each newcomer more brightly feathered than the last.

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