Hard Boiled Gecko, Anyone?

From the Courier Mail:

Dr Peter Beaumont, 60, was cooking Thai fish cakes for dinner when he found a fully formed gecko inside an egg shell.

He believes the discovery may be a world first and may help solve a food poisoning puzzle.

"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."

Dr Beaumont said the lizard had not got into the shell after he had discarded it because the reptile was embedded between the inner-shell and the egg's membrane.

He said the gecko may have crawled into the chicken to feast on an embryo – and got stuck.

The egg then formed around the lizard.