Egg facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

Egg can mean different things:

Egg (biology)
- Ovum, the female reproductive cell
  - Zygote, a fertilised ovum
- Cleidoic egg: the type of egg produced by amniotes (reptiles, birds, mammals)
Egg (food)

Images for kids

Eggs of various birds, a reptile, various cartilaginous fish, a cuttlefish and various butterflies and moths. (Click on image for key)
Six commercial eggs — view from the top against a white background
Salmon fry hatching. The larva has grown around the remains of the yolk and the remains of the soft, transparent egg are discarded.
Guillemot eggs
Turtle eggs in a nest dug by a female common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina)
Orange-peel doris (Acanthodoris lutea), a nudibranch, in tide pool laying eggs
Microlecithal eggs from the roundworm Toxocara
Microlecithal eggs from the flatworm Paragonimus westermani
Frogspawn is mesolecithal.
A baby tortoise begins to emerge "fully developed" from its macrolecithal egg.
Chocolate Easter eggs hidden as part of an egg hunt
An average whooping crane egg is 102 mm (4.0 in) long and weighs 208 g (7.3 oz)
Eurasian oystercatcher eggs camouflaged in the nest
Egg of a senegal parrot, a bird that nests in tree holes, on a 1 cm (0.39 in) grid
Eggs of ostrich, emu, kiwi and chicken
Finch egg next to American dime
Eggs of duck, goose, guineafowl and chicken
Eggs of ostrich, cassowary, chicken, flamingo, pigeon and blackbird
Egg of an emu
Egg from a chicken compared to a 1 euro coin, great tit egg and a corn grain
Bird nest with brown marbling eggs of a robin
A spherical chicken egg
Insect eggs, in this case those of the Emperor gum moth, are often laid on the underside of leaves.
Fish eggs, such as these herring eggs are often transparent and fertilized after laying.
Skates and some sharks have a uniquely shaped egg case called a mermaid's purse.
A Testudo hermanni emerging fully developed from a reptilian egg.
A Schistosoma mekongi egg.
Eggs of Huffmanela hamo, a nematode parasite in a fish
Eggs of various parasites (mainly nematodes) from wild primates

See also

In Spanish: Huevo (biología) para niños

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