Consider the egg. What does it look like? What does it taste like? Where does it come from? Maybe you’re thinking tautologically: An egg is egg-shaped, tastes eggy, and comes from egg-laying hens.

But most eggs in the bird world aren’t even, well, egg-shaped, Ed Yong reported in 2017. Today’s reading list encourages you to reconsider the humble egg. On Eggs It’s Weird That Eggs Were ...