Stanardsville is mentioned 20 times on our forum: Latest news from Stanardsville, VA collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: United States (17.2%), German (13.1%), Irish (12.2%), English (8.1%), Subsaharan African (6.7%), Polish (1.4%). Current Local Time: EST time zone. Elevation: 668 feet.
A male selects a female and clings to her back. The female digs a hole in the sand and lays her eggs while the male fertilizes them. The female can lay between 60,000 and 120,000 eggs in batches of a few thousand at a time. The eggs take about two weeks to hatch; shore birds eat many of them before they hatch. The larvae molt six times during the first year. Raising horseshoe crabs in captivity has proven to be difficult.
Snakes can have live births, or they can lay eggs in order to have babies. Snake can reproduce every one to three years, and they can have up to 150 snake babies at a time. Continue Reading. Boas, rattle snakes and garter snakes give birth to live young. Baby snakes develop inside their mother's body, and they are born in a thin, slimy membrane that protects them from the environment. The snakes break out of the membrane using an egg tooth. Many other snake species give birth to live young.