Who Else Lays Eggs?

Birds do! Did you know there are 9000 kinds of birds, and they all lay eggs?
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Which bird lays blue eggs?

Robins do.  ​Did you know robins are a sign of spring?

Who laid this egg? 

A penguin.  Father penguins have a pouch between their feet.  It keeps the egg warm so mother penguins can go hunt for food.
  
Who laid these two tiny eggs?

A hummingbird.  Tiny birds should lay tiny eggs.
They got their name because their wings hum.

​Who lays giant eggs?

The largest bird of course! An ostrich.
Ostriches don’t bury their heads in the sand. They lay their head down to hide. It only looks like they’re buried.
 
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Who else lays eggs?
​All insects do, except for flies and aphids.
Do you know who laid these eggs?

Ants, of course. They may look different, but they’re both ants.
Did you know we’ve named 12,500 ants? But, there may be another 10,000 without names. That’s a lot of ants!

Who laid all these eggs?

Not this bee. She’s a worker bee.
Only a queen bee can lay eggs. She can lay 1000 to 2000 eggs, a day. That’s a lot of eggs!

​Who laid their tiny eggs on this leaf?

A butterfly or a moth. They can live anywhere, except Antarctica.
Did you know there are 12-15,000 kinds of butterflies? There are 150-250,000 kind of moths. That’s a lot of moths!

​Who laid these eggs? Hint…it wasn’t an insect.

It was an arachnid. That’s a spider. Some spiders lay their eggs individually. Some weave an egg sac that’s full of eggs.
Did you know there are 40,000 kinds of spiders. They can live anywhere, except Antarctica. I guess insects don’t like the South Pole!

Who else lays eggs?
All reptiles do, except for boas, vipers, and garter snakes.
Who’s hatching out of this egg?

An alligator! How can you tell? Alligators are dark green. They close their mouths and hide their teeth.
Crocodiles are olive brown. They close their mouths and show their top teeth. Beware a crocodile’s smile!

Who laid these eggs?​

A lizard did. Little lizards lay little eggs. Big lizards lay big eggs.
All lizards have four legs, clawed feet, and a long tail. Most have dry, scaly skin. That sounds rough to me!

​​Who laid these eggs?

A snake did. Snakes can be smaller than a ruler. They can be longer than 7 rulers.
All lizards have a forked tongue and a long body. They don’t have arms or legs, ears or eyelids. They never blink. Ever!

​Who’s hatching out of these eggs?

Baby turtles! Small turtles are 2-3 inches long. Big ones are 72 inches, or 6 rulers long.
Turtles crawl or swim with 4 legs. They hide from danger inside a shell. I wish I had one too!

Who laid these eggs?

A dinosaur did, millions of years ago. They never got to hatch. Instead they turned to stone.
I wonder who’s inside. A Tyrannosaurus Rex? Maybe a Triceratops?  I guess we’ll never know!

Who else lays eggs?
Amphibians do!
Amphibians live half their lives on land, the other half in water.

Do you recognize these 2 amphibians? The green one is a frog. The brown one’s a toad.
There’s only 1 other kind of amphibian, a salamander.
 
Most water animals lay eggs, whether they live in freshwater or saltwater.  
Who’s inside these eggs? Fish!​

There are more than 27,000 different kinds of fish. They live in water. They have a backbone. They breathe using gills. Both these fish live in the ocean.
The first fish is a clown fish. Why? It has bright colors, like a clown. The fish in the second picture are salmon. They swim up river to lay their eggs, in the spot where they once hatched.

Who laid this strange egg?​

A shark or a skate. I wonder what’s in my picture. What big eyes it has! I wonder about its mouth…
The egg case is called a Mermaid’s Purse, because of its shape. It never belonged to a mermaid. Some purses hold 1 egg. Others hold up to 7.


Who laid this strange egg?

A jellyfish did. Its body is soft. That’s because it’s mostly water with just a little gelatin (like jello). On top it looks like a bell. It has tentacles that string down to catch or sting its prey.
Jellyfish usually float in the ocean. Their top can pulse and move them along too.

Who laid these strange eggs?

An octopus did. Did you recognize this one with its huge head, 2 eyes, and 8 arms? The arms have suction cups.  
Squids look a lot like octopuses with their 8 arms. The difference, squids have 2 long tentacles.​