Hard Boiled Gecko, Anyone?
May. 18th, 2008 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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.