What is the difference between oviparous and viviparous?

Answer by  Lucy101 (225)

Oviparous refers to animals that lay eggs which mature and hatch externally. Viviparous are animals where the embryo develops inside the mother's body giving birth to a live young. Many aquatic animals have a combination which is called ovoviviparous where embryos develop inside the egg that's in the mother's body.

Answer by  AgroSloba (37)

Most simply, oviparous is when female carries the eggs and lay them out in the external enviroment. Viviparous is when female born a live larvae. It happens to insects. Also there is a transition type between oviparous and viviparous, and it is oviviparous is when developing of begins in female, and after a leggs are layed a larvae get born.