12-02-03 Son: Why are hen's legs so short? Dad: You're a fool. If the hen's legs were too long, wouldn't they drop their eggs into pieces when laying? 儿子：为什么母鸡的腿这么短呢？ 父亲：你真笨。如果母鸡的腿太长，它们下蛋的时候，鸡蛋岂不都摔碎了？...

12-01-19 Teacher: Walter, why don't you wash your face? I can see what you had for breakfast this morning. Walter: What was it? Teacher: Eggs. Walter: Wrong. That was yesterday. 老师：沃尔特，你为什么不洗脸?我看得出你今天早饭吃了什么。 沃尔特：我吃了什么？...

11-04-19 Flame retardants（阻燃剂） are chemical compounds added to fabrics and plastics to keep them from burning easily, but these can be toxic. Now a team of researchers from Spain and Canada has detected some of these emerging pollutants for the first ti...

11-01-07 More than 4,700 German farms have been closed after large amounts of animal feed were found to be contaminated with dioxin, a poisonous chemical. 德国超过4700座农场因发现大量动物饲料被二恶英污染而关闭。 Officials insist the levels of dioxin（二恶英...

10-11-07 As the Arctic warms, a new cache of resourcessnow goose eggsmay help sustain（维持，支撑） the polar bear population for the foreseeable（可预知的） future. In a new study published in an early online edition of Oikos, researchers affiliated with th...

10-10-31 An international team of Mycologists（霉菌学家） and Ecologists（生态学家） studying Atlantic sea turtles at Cape Verde have discovered that the species is under threat from a fungal infection which targets eggs. The research, published in FEMS Micr...

10-09-03 Scientists say they are closer to knowing why older women are more likely to produce abnormal eggs. 科学家称他们已进一步了解为何高龄妇女更有可能排出不正常的卵细胞。 The protein is a key factor in the ovulation process The Newcastle University team s...

10-06-17 Contrary to popular belief, paying a premium price for free-range eggs may not be healthier than eating regular eggs, a new study reports. Scientists found that free-range eggs in Taiwan contain at least five times higher levels of certain pollutant...

10-03-03 Sixty-seven million years ago, when dinosaur hatchlings（刚孵化的幼体） first scrambled（攀登，争夺） out of their eggs, their firstand lastglimpse of the world might have been the open jaws of a 3.5-metre-long snake named Sanajeh indicus, based on...

10-01-05 If you're pregnant and looking for an excuse to eat bacon咸肉，腌肉 and eggs, now you've got one: a new research study published in the January 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) by a team of University of North Carolina r...