hatching
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An international research team led by scientists in Canada has uncovered a likely explanation for one of the more unusual features of snake development: why embryos curl into tight spirals before hatching.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
On Saturday, visitors alerted staff after spotting 10 Nile crocodiles hatching without any human intervention.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
But poultry companies ended up hatching too many chicks and overestimating demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
They don't bite humans, and the bacteria they carry prevents any eggs produced after mating from hatching.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
It was a school largely for people from out of town, preppies who observed the surrounding neighborhood with a voyeuristic curiosity when they weren’t hatching myths about it to scare freshmen.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
Ms. Gray hopes that the summer hatchings indicate future breeding success.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
The tiny flying insects, also known as midgies, usually appear in two hatchings and thrive in wet and warm conditions.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2022
There had been a long dearth of eagle hatchings even before that, but major conservation efforts were undertaken to bring the birds back.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2019
“A lot of the hatchings being born are surviving. What we’re doing is not stopping them.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2017
With the newly hatched salmon in the Miramichi that spring of 1954 were young of previous hatchings, salmon a year or two old, young fish in brilliant coats marked with bars and bright red spots.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
