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Which Came First: The Gecko or the Egg?
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by PEP | May 17, 2008 at 07:29 am
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Scientists don't have a clue.
Australian scientists are trying to crack the mystery of how a tiny lizard found its way inside a chicken’s egg.
The bizarre discovery was made by a doctor in Darwin as he made dinner earlier this week.
Peter Beaumont broke open an egg and was shocked to find a dead gecko inside. “I was cracking the eggs into a pan when I noticed one of them was all cloudy. I looked at the shell and saw a tiny gecko,” he said.
The lizard could not have entered the egg after it was cracked open because it was embedded between the interior of the shell and the egg’s membrane, he said.
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Barry Artiste
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at 07:49 on May 17th, 2008
How strange! I once found a dead fly in my orange juice, but that's not as strange as this!
at 02:15 on May 18th, 2008
Ok, you asked for it. Man at very posh restaurant: Waiter! What is this fly doing in my soup? Waiter: It appears to be doing the backstroke, sir.
ba-da-BOOM! (where's a vaudeville band when you need one??!!)
at 13:00 on May 17th, 2008
PEP, I like this story. It's good stuff. The only plausiable explanation is the gecko crawled inside the Hens uterus, died inside, absorbed by the chickens reproductive system and introduced into the egg during it's development. The other explanation could be fraud. Stranger things have happened in nature. Did you know "Whales Fart in Water"? 10 to 20 times a day, Fart Bubbles the Size of Buicks ! I never knew that?
at 02:13 on May 18th, 2008
Gee Barry, thanks for the education in whale gaseous exploits. ;}
And for the flag, too.
at 15:03 on May 17th, 2008
I hate when that happens.
at 02:17 on May 18th, 2008
Poor thang. ;} And thanks for the flag. But I don't think I'll be asking to borrow any eggs from you anytime soon.
at 20:50 on May 17th, 2008
YIKES!! good work, great story.. but.. now I'm on the lookout!! .
at 02:18 on May 18th, 2008
Yea, kind of makes you suspicious of breakfast, eh? Next time in that greasy spoon, we may all be looking at that scrambled egg with the funy-looking stuff and *not* saying "oh, that's just pepper and some of the hash browns." Thanks for the flag!