Pointy eggs more likely to stay put in birds' cliffside nests, study finds
Wednesday, August 22, 2018 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
Natural selection—that merciless weeder-outer of biological designs that are out of step with the times—also is a wily shaper of traits. Exhibit A is the pointy murre egg, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.