Common chicken "wisdom" suggests that the more orange the yolk, the better the egg. A bright orange yolk implies that the ...

An egg yolk’s color comes predominantly from carotenoids, a group of pigments produced by lots of living things...egg-cept animals, which get carotenoids from stuff they eat. The more carotenoid-rich ...

Female lineages of European cuckoos lay eggs with colorful shells and intricate patterns specialized to deceive more than 100 avian hosts into fostering their chicks. Parasitic cuckoo eggshells show ...

Founded during the Black Freedom Movement of the 1960s, Kwanzaa is a non-religious holiday that is observed by millions of ...

Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Before joining CNET, she covered crime at People Magazine and ...