On a fall day in Gainesville, Georgia, Justin Kobylka, the forty-two-year-old owner of Kinova Reptiles, was preparing to cut open two clutches of snake eggs. He was hoping to hit upon some valuable, ...

Struthio camelus Common ostrich 2 No/yes Mann and Siedler, 2004 Dromaius novaehollandiae Emu 2 No/yes Mann and Siedler, 2006 Hundreds of proteins have been identified in eggshell proteomes in a small ...

The shell of an adult hawksbill sea turtle consists of about a dozen overlapping scales colored with streaks of gold, brown, orange, and red. Hawksbills have long been hunted for their shells—the ...

Peril plagues the lives of Myanmar's baby turtles: if crabs don't get them before they scramble to sea, poachers or fishing trawlers might finish them off. Myanmar's waters boast five of the world's ...