Sentence examples for buried eggs from inspiring English sources

The species' survival was then dependent on its buried eggs.

During this time, arranged pairs tended to have a higher proportion of "disappeared" or buried eggs, and they produced significantly more infertile eggs.

These buried eggs remain in their breeding ground for a period of 5 to 6 weeks before they hatch out as swimming "trilobite" (first instar) larvae.

In oviraptorids, the adult tucked its legs inside an open space at the center of the egg-clutch and hugged the periphery of the clutch with its long forelimbs; in the more lightly built troodontids, the adult sat on top of the vertically buried eggs.

First, actualistic experiments [64] reveal that a large opening in the upper egg surface may also result from gas collection and expansion, due to the decay of organic matter in buried eggs.

Buried eggs remained in the stream until their retrieval between February and March 2011.

Sure enough, that same night, mere days after they'd buried Egg and told her they were leaving, Miss Thalia had knocked on their cabin door to announce that she'd decided to have them sicced by Kittredge's dogs and in all probability hanged, but that she was giving them a half day's head start.

In the 17th century avalanches were considered to be so fiendish that they were blamed on witches, and people would attempt to ward off evil spirits by burying eggs at the foot of known avalanche slopes.

So why do warblers bury eggs, including their own, rather than just ejecting the invader?

More likely, the warblers are forced to bury eggs, because they can't eject them.

A sea turtles forelegs are useful for digging in the sand to bury eggs but they are not adaptations for nest building (Sober 2000, 85).