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While Nile crocodile eggs naturally incubate in underground nests in the wild, zoos typically hatch them in carefully controlled incubators, closely monitoring the temperature and humidity.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Since the pair formed in 2018, fans have watched them weather freezing winter storms, incubate eggs and dote on fuzzy chicks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

He said there should be an emphasis on "preserving natural field which provides habitat for insects, bugs, moths and caterpillars that need to incubate underground there."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

We’ve watched it incubate in this country since Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

The shells of her eggs would be thin and eventually smash when she tried to incubate them.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

For more than 70 years, most annual flu vaccines have come from a manufacturing process that incubates the virus in chicken eggs.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

"Twitter has long served as the place where our national conversation incubates and develops," he says in the video.

From BBC ● May 9, 2023

Stockton also incubates eggs and cares for the turtles in the first year of their lives.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2022

Leprosy incubates slowly, affecting the skin, upper respiratory tract, eyes and peripheral nerves.

From Nature ● Mar. 3, 2019

The emergence of hiv was subtle: it incubates for years in a human host before it kills the host.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

For decades, Greenland quietly incubated one of the last of the anticolonial movements chipping away at an old European empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Flamingo eggs hatch after a period of about 28 days, where they are incubated on mud pile nests by both parents.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024

In certain species, eggs incubated in cooler environments hatch into male turtles while warmer environments produce females, potentially skewing an entire generation.

From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024

It was fitting that the dogfight took place at Edwards Air Force Base, a vast desert facility where Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound and the military has incubated its most secret aerospace advances.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

We are safe, well ventilated, and incubated, provided we can avoid technologies that might fiddle with that ozone, or shift the levels of carbon dioxide.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

It works with these managers to create additional capacity by developing and incubating new strategies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

“We are now taking the foundry part of what we had been incubating and creating that as a resource” for the U.S. government, he said.

From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026

Parents take turns incubating the egg, which is highly sensitive to temperature.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

Both pairs have since rebuilt their nests in slightly higher locations and are incubating fresh clutches of eggs.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

I close my eyes and see Frightful incubating her eggs.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George