.dropcap { color: #838078; float: left; font-size: 82px; line-height: 60px; padding: 5px 8px 0 0; } .art-aside-tmp { height: auto !important; min-height: auto !important; } In January, a twin-engine Cessna landed on Mexico’s Guadalupe Island with a most unusual collection of passengers: 36 fertile Black-footed Albatross eggs, all destined to be raised by foster parents at a Laysan Albatross colony on this remote volcanic island. Scientists had ferried them from Midway Atoll, located on the far northwestern edge of the Hawaiian archipelago, to Guadalupe, more than 3,500 miles away. Yet the last 12 miles of their journey would be the most grueling. The lone road on Guadalupe is a bumpy, double track pocked by washouts and boulders—the kind of terrain that scrambles even the most swaddled of eggs. To give them their best chance at surviving the long trip, the scientists had nestled the eggs into foam cutouts designed to fit each one’s shape...