How did this little fellow get in there?

[Ducky]

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff284/CanuckyDucky/lizzardinegg.jpg


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.

What came 1st...the egg or the gecko inside? (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1966106/What-came-first---the-egg-or-the-gecko-inside.html)

I wonder how long little gecko was habitating in the shell before he died?

For that fact, could the shell form around him while the egg grew?

Life's little mysteries.

[mojo]

Wow, thats strange.

I wonder if it could have been inside the chook....eewwww.

[Yo Mama]

Dr Beaumont believes the lizard climbed into the chicken’s bottom, perhaps to feed on an embryo, before dying and becoming cocooned in the developing egg.

“Eggs are made inside chooks up this tube from their bottom,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“Now obviously this tube is in contact with the whole outside world. It has to be that the gecko climbed up inside the chook and died up there while the egg was being formed.

Moral of the story: chickens need pants.

[skunk]

Hahahahah...I was actually going to say it crawled up the hen's ass. Rather strange.

Call it intuition, or a sick mind, either way I was right :).

[Ducky]

Moral of the story: chickens need pants.

Probably...but this character got away with it for decades:

http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff284/CanuckyDucky/donaldduck.jpg

[vckums]

When they lay thier eggs are the eggs hardened?

[Ducky]

Chicken eggs like many others, are semi-porous. The membrane allows for certain things to pass the membrane barrier, and keeps out other things. Reminds me of a 'revolving door' in buildings.

It takes 28 days from conception to growth, then the little peeper slowly makes it's way out into the real world (pecks egg)

When the chicken lays the egg, it (egg) isn't hard. Kinda like how a human baby's skull isn't completely grown over until around 1 1/2 to 2 years of age. We call it the fauntinal. The lines on the skull we see in X-rays.

[vckums]

Reason I asked is could the little gecko have gotten into the soft egg right after the chicken laid it? Then the shell hardens and hes stuck?