You might know that female ostriches lay eggs but there is more to that than just laying eggs. First, female ostriches lay six eggs also the eggs hatch after forty days. Next ostriches lay the biggest eggs in the world. Another fact is when the eggs hatch the babies are as big as full grown chickens. Then, ostriches can live to be fifty or older. Also, it would take two dozen (twenty four eggs) chicken eggs to equal one ostrich egg. Always, the ostrich is the closest living relative to the T-rex. Lastly ostriches used to be endangered because people hunted them for their feathers. As you can see there is more to eggs then you thought.