Two of a clutch of five three-toed box turtle eggs are hatching. After slitting the shell with its egg tooth, the hatchling pushes a front leg out for leverage.

I was very pleased to see this in all four cylinders

Rare capture of the organic chicken emerging from it's shell

The way the light fell on the gravestone reminded me of pencil marks in cross-hatching shading. The light falls one way and the bark on the tree goes in the opposite direction. It denotes the separation of life and death and the bark speaks of our journeys through life: a journey that ends with physical death but perhaps there is a light beyond.

Where did I put that alien DNA?.. Can't find it anywhere.

One of the baby Honduran Milksnakes just slit open the egg.

The blue one burst out of the egg

This is one of the first hatchlings

The sound they were making was unbelievable - like a cartoon style swarm of bees

Asbolus Verrucosus

Fernbank Musuem

Atlanta, Ga

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This little fella just crawled out of his cocoon!

The act of a snake coming out of it's egg is called pipping. Sometimes a snake will stay in there for several days until it's absorbed all the yolk, or is ready. This particular snake is an Anery meaning it lacks color. Once they hatch it's good to leave them with the other eggs because their movement will tell the eggs it's time to hatch. When we 'popped' (a term for sexing a snake) this particular snake, we found out it was a female. Trying to get babies to eat can be very difficult. So far, it has been a month and this little girl hasn't eaten yet.

Chicks hatching as part of a 4-H CAPITAL classroom program in Austin

Look, the Peep hatched!

Created for the WPC Week 101

This creature is called a 'Kobold' and belongs to the folklore of the Harz Region.

Sculpture in the Heideviertel, Wernigerode.

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Baby Snowy Plover Hatching, Eden Ecological Reserve, Union City, CA

Playing with giant eggs in a giant nest with grandma at the children's museum in Naples

messing around with macro lense

found these guys on gate in garden

not the sharpest picture because it was

very hard to focus with the wind blowing

the web

Momma wood duck laid 16 eggs and several other helpful birds added theirs to her nest. After 16 hatched she decided her work was done and left the remainder. Thanks to county extension, Sea Biscuit has a fine egg incubator for just such events. Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter (donations welcome see blog)