Talk:Oviparity

Livebearing fish

Not all fish reproduce by external fertilization. A well known case of this is in the livebearing fish commonly found in the aquarium trade such as guppies, mollies, platies and swordtails. Sting rays also reproduce by internal fertilization. I just can't seem to come up with a good way to re-word this article.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Imrandy85 (talk • contribs) 08:29, 1 December 2007

Stbbish, merge ?

A curious problem with this article is that, despite being headed as "oviparity", the body defines oviparity as only one out of five subjects that this page aims to cover. It's like this content still hasn't found the place where it belongs, so I propose merging into egg (biology), especially since this page is quite stubbish in length. Cesiumfrog (talk) 01:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

The Egg (biology) page is very wrong, and would be better called "Egg (zoology)". Plants have eggs, and the statements about seeds etc. on that page are very wrong. Please don't merge yet. Nadiatalent (talk) 12:28, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

DON'T MERGE I am in general against mergeing unless there are strong reasons for doing so. Thwe fact that this is a stubby article and mentions matters too strongly that are not in its remit are only weak reasons to merge. A better alternative would be to contribute to expanding this article and to toning down the classification information given. A question I would like to see addressed is what was the evolutionary path of egg-laying, i.e the first creatures to lay eggs? IMO moving towards ever growing articles is not in keeping with internet delivered resources. IMO a page length 1000 words is optimal for a website article and 1500 words max. This also has the benefit of avoiding quasi-booklets with editorial styles. LookingGlass (talk) 11:39, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

What about Dragons?

According to D&D monster manual they also lay eggs.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.194.131.56 (talk) 06:29, 2 February 2018 (UTC) 

What is the simple of oviparous, just like mamals are called viviparous

Like viviparous are the animals who lays egg called mamals so what are the oviparous are called? 106.77.167.214 (talk) 14:43, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

"Oviparous animals are female animals that lay their eggs,"

The first sentence should be reconsidered. If only females of oviparous species are called "oviparous animals," what do scientists call the males then? "Oviparous animals" also fertilize eggs, right? - Croak!ichi (talk) 08:19, 3 October 2022 (UTC)