The egg industry has spent millions of dollars on measures to prevent avian influenza from devastating their flocks.

Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, is the world's oldest known wild bird. She also just became a mother yet again.

Commercially produced eggs at local grocery stores were selling for $6 to $8 a dozen last week, almost double the average price of eggs reported by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. But some grocery ...