For two million years African cuckoo finches have been tricking other birds into raising their young by mimicking the colour of their eggs, but new research suggests the tables may be turning in this ...

As many humans prepare to unwrap their Easter eggs, scientists have solved one of nature’s biggest criminal cases, an egg forgery scandal two million years in the making. Their findings suggest that ...

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Easter eggs are wonderfully colorful and sometimes full of chocolate. While it remains an absolute mystery of nature how and why a rabbit lays and delivers these piebald, tasty eggs to children on ...

Cuckoo finch eggs laid by different females. Diversity of maternally inherited egg phenotypes within a single interbreeding species, the brood-parasitic cuckoo finch. Different cuckoo finch matrilines ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has discovered an ingenuous trick by the African cuckoo finch to transfer her parental responsibilities to other birds. ...

Credit: Claire N. Spottiswoode Such ' maternal inheritance ' allows cuckoo finches to side-step the risk of inheriting the wrong mimicry genes from a father raised by a different host, and so has ...

As many humans prepare to unwrap their Easter eggs, scientists have solved one of nature’s biggest criminal cases, an egg forgery scandal 2 million years in the making. Their findings suggest that the ...

Scientists have solved one of nature's biggest criminal cases, an egg forgery scandal two million years in the making. Their findings suggest that the victims of this fraud may now be gaining the ...