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* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' gives an InterspeciesRomance example, when Dr. Hutchinson, a cat married to a turtle, lays an egg. Apparently justified as turtles lay eggs and not only is she married to a turtle but her father is a turtle. Even weirder though, ''four'' kids come out of it, and since Heffer was the primary "[[{{Pun}} egg-sitter]]," [[LamarckWasRight one of them is a cow]] ''already wearing glasses''.

In the natural world, living creatures have a myriad of ways of bringing more young into the world. Some produce thousands of eggs and young that grow quickly but only a few make it to adulthood. Others invest huge amounts of time and resources to develop and take care of only a few at a time.[[note]]These are called ''r'' and ''K''-type breeding styles, respectively. There is considerable debate on where humans fall on the scale,

* Beluga caviar sounds like this trope, but it's actually eggs from a fish called the Beluga Sturgeon. The word "beluga" comes from a Russian word meaning "white", so it's not terribly surprising that it appears in the names of unrelated species.

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* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}''

* ''Manga/FairyTail'': Happy hatched from an egg. Supposedly, so did his [[DistaffCounterpart Romantic Interest]] Carla. Their species, for reference, resemble bipedal cats. Their eggs are also larger than full grown members of the species, in case the fact that they technically aren't cats made eggs seem plausible.
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' had Ryo-Ohki, a cat/rabbit creature who can turn into a spaceship and a [[LittleBitBeastly humanish]] girl, hatch from an egg. In addition, Ryoko joked that the egg was hers and that Tenchi was the father, but it later turns out that, in a really convoluted way, the egg came from [[MadScientist Washu]].

* One of Toph's disciples in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' comics was surprised to learn Toph had human parents, up to then she'd assumed Toph had [[MemeticBadass willed herself into existence from a boulder.]]

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* When Mary asks Max how babies are made in ''WesternAnimation/MaryAndMax'' he says his mother told him that babies hatch from eggs laid by a rabbi.

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* In ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'', Daisy hatches from an egg. [[HumanAliens Despite appearances]], she's the child of a [[BeastMan dinosaur-person]] and the dinosaur-people are still oviparous.

* Subverted in [[Creator/TamoraPierce Tamora Pierce's]] short story ''[[Literature/TortallUniverse Nawat]]''. The titular character's wife does ''not'' lay eggs, despite her fears. Instead, one of the babies takes after her crow-to-human shapeshifter father by eventually growing some feathers.

* ''Series/PrehistoricPlanet'' features the ''Adalatherium'', a badger-like Mesozoic mammal. It's first introduced inspecting a clutch of eggs in a burrow, [[BaitAndSwitch with the narration implying and suggesting that it is raiding a dinosaur nest]] as early mammals are stereotyped to do, but as it turns out...''they are her own eggs.''[[labelnote:note]] ''Adelatherium'', like most non-eutherian Mesozoic mammals, were egg-layers. Egg-laying used to be far more common in Mesozoic mammals.[[/labelnote]]

** The Jackai are race of [[{{Hobbits}} hobbit]] sized humanoids that somewhat resemble a cross between a cat, ferret, and rodent, but they lay eggs in communal hatcheries.[[labelnote:fun fact]] The comic's creator based the Jackai child rearing method off that of the titular creatures from the show ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' of which she is a fan. [[/labelnote]]
** The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]] are shown to be egg-layers but a good deal of them [[BeastMan resemble mammals of some kind]] however this trope is still in play even for the ones who look like [[BirdPeople birds]] or [[LizardFolk reptiles]] as [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/slightlydamned/images/3/35/BuwaroEgg_SD295.png/revision/latest?cb=20130118014628 their eggs]] are round, slimy and transparent like that of a fish or amphibian rather than shelled.

-->'''Buwaro''': '''[[spoiler:Angels]] hatch from EGGS?!'''
* The Uryuoms of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' zigzag this trope: they can create eggs despite being a OneGenderRace but do so using unspecified "secretions" (which usually requires two Uryuoms to get enough). Once created, [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2003-09-09 these eggs will accept DNA from any combination of genders and species]] and produce a viable chimeric offspring which hatches after an incubation period. Despite being entirely biologically derived a Uryuom egg is more like a {{Magitek}} UterineReplicator than anything else and so is an egg [[CallASmeerpARabbit in name only]].

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* In ''Blog/HamstersParadise'' the original sketches [[spoiler:depict a species of bird-like hamster that had re-evolved the ability to lay pseudo-eggs. Starting off by producing undeveloped young like a marsupial, it eventually evolves the ability to contain the newborns within an amniotic sac where they can develop further outside the mother's body, and emerge as a fully-developed fledgeling.]]

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* In ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', when referencing [[WingedHumanoid Shayera's]] pregnancy with his son Warhawk, Comicbook/{{Static}} tells Franchise/GreenLantern, "Shayera was one cranky pregnant lady. Though to be fair, if I laid an egg ''that'' big..." Luckily, he was just kidding.

* The Duck-Billed Platypus and Echidnas are the only living mammals to lay eggs. As an ancestral trait, egg-laying was probably much more common among mammals in the past, but by stroke of luck only a few lineages have survived to present day...and particularly aberrant ones at that, which don't fully represent what the rest of the now-extinct egg-laying mammals were even like.

** And further back millions of years before there were true mammals, there were the cynodonts: early therapsids that ranged in size from rat-size to large dog-size. Evidence has been found suggesting that cynodonts possessed fur and whiskers and thus would superfically resemble a modern mammal save for semi-sprawled front legs and a lack of external ears: however, like all therapsids outside the common ancestor of placentals and marsupials, the cynodonts were egg-layers: such as the beaver-sized ''Kayentatherium'', which laid clutches of as many as ''thirty-eight eggs'' that the parent watched over until they hatched into tiny and fully independent young. And to drive home how odd that would look, [[https://www.deviantart.com/eurwentala/art/Jurassic-Parent-794809807 here's a reconstruction of the visually rodent-like animal and its clutch of tiny eggs.]]
* Beluga caviar sounds like this trope, but it's actually eggs from a fish called the Beluga Sturgeon.[[note]]The word "beluga" comes from a Russian word meaning "white", so it's not terribly surprising that it appears in the names of unrelated species.[[/note]]

** Similarly, plant seeds could be considered a kind of egg. (Alton Brown invokes this trope on ''Series/GoodEats'' when discussing what wheat germ is. He also compares an avocado to an egg, because of both its shape and its high fat content.)

* An advertisement for the dog food [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Kc5cRmCVY Nutro]] opens with a puppy hatching from an egg. They are also shown later in the ad growing on trees and being found inside fruits and vegetables.

* Website/NobodyHere: At the end of the animation in "[[https://nobodyhere.com/justme/dodo.here Dodo]]", Jogchem (the author, [[MostWritersAreHuman a human]]) hatches out of an egg fully grown.

* This was {{subverted|Trope}} in an ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story, where Jughead had to take care of what he thought was a kangaroo egg in Professor Flutesnoot's laboratory, until Mr. Weatherbee showed up and informed Jughead that kangaroos don't lay eggs. [[spoiler: When the egg did hatch in the end, it turned out to actually be an ostrich egg.]]

* Happens as a (disturbing) twist at the end of the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''Literature/EggMonstersFromMars''. [[spoiler: The protagonist, a 12-year-old boy, was impregnated by the titular monster and lays an enormous egg in the last page]].

* In ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'' the original sketches [[spoiler: depict a species of bird-like hamster that had re-evolved the ability to lay pseudo-eggs. Starting off by producing undeveloped young like a marsupial, it eventually evolves the ability to contain the newborns within an amniotic sac where they can develop further outside the mother's body, and emerge as a fully-developed fledgeling.]]

* ''VideoGame/BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg'' has them all over the place, generally used as [[ImprobableWeaponUser weapons]] and movement aids. Things that can hatch from these eggs include tigers, butterflies, winged fire-breathing hippos, and VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog himself, among who knows what else. It's even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when an NPC chick wonders who or what laid all of these eggs to begin with.

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/LoveCanSurpriseYouAtAnyTimeInYourLife''. As a CallBack to "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E22LeelaAndTheGenestalk Leela and the Genestalk]]," it's mentioned that Leela sometimes lays a small egg in lieu of normal menstruation, but she sometimes has a normal period as well. According to her parents (who are more visibly mutated than Leela), Leela herself hatched from an egg, and when she announces her pregnancy, they expect the same of her baby. However, her baby on the ultrasound appears to be mammalian, as it has an umbilical cord.

** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheBirthOfJapan'' features Doraemon's Life Creation Set, a gadget that can create artificial life that's later hatched from eggs - one of those constructs being a {{Pegasus}} named [[ADogNamedDog Pega]].
** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpiralCity'' have an Egg Factory in the titular city which creates eggs where their inhabitants - LivingToys - are hatched from. Even toys of mammals, including two particularly intelligent stuffed pigs named Pibu and Popi, are created from these eggs. Justified since they're, well, toys.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheBirthOfJapan'' features Doraemon's Life Creation Set, a gadget that can create artificial life that's later hatched from eggs - one of those constructs being a {{Pegasus}} named [[ADogNamedDog Pega]].
* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpiralCity'' have an Egg Factory in the titular city which creates eggs where their inhabitants - LivingToys - are hatched from. Even toys of mammals, including two particularly intelligent stuffed pigs named Pibu and Popi, are created from these eggs. Justified since they're, well, toys.