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Would you like Gecko with your egg's...........?

Cook finds gecko in chook egg 15May08 EGGS-CEPTIONAL: Dr Peter Beaumont with the fully-formed gecko he found inside a supermarket-bought egg. Picture: JULIANNE OSBORNE A QUIET Sunday dinner has turned into an eggs-traordinary mystery. Dr Peter Beaumont, 60, was cooking Thai fishcakes 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. "If you open up a dead chook, you sometimes see the partly-formed eggs,'' he said. "The gecko could have been looking for a feed and got trapped.'' Dr Beaumont said eggs sometimes contained salmonella, a potentially fatal food poisoning often carried by other lizards. "Maybe this happens all the time,'' he said. "Maybe geckos regularly crawl inside chickens for a feed. "And this one was unlucky enough to get stuck in an egg.'' Dr Beaumont bought the egg from a Darwin supermarket. He took it to health experts yesterday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ads By GoogleAustralian Poultry Wiki Comprehensive online resource for commercial meat and egg production www.poultryhub.org Gotta Getta Gecko Gecko Phone Mobile Phone for Mobile Kids www.geckoworld.com.au Beautiful Feet by PedEgg Stop Wasting Money At Nail Salons PedEgg Removes Rough Callused Skin GlobalShopDirect.com.au Related Articlesweather Darwin Fine and sunny. Hi: 31C Low: 20C More Weather today's paper Missed something?Review news archives from: Thursday, 26-Jun Wednesday, 25-Jun Tuesday, 24-Jun Monday, 23-Jun Sunday, 22-Jun Saturday, 21-Jun Or visit Newstext to search our complete archives. Ads By GoogleKeep Your Pet Happy Find Out What Your Pet Should Be Eating To Keep Them Happy & Healthy www.optimumpet.com.au Mobile Chicken Coops Australian Made. Modern A-Frame design. Delivery Australia wide. www.RoyalRooster.com.au Get Rid of Belly Fat How To Lose 9lbs Every 11 Days Following These 10 Simple Rules. www.HealthDietSuccess.com Advertisement Take the first step Start your distance education today. Click here. Search for: Search by: Keyword Business Name In: Suburb Sorry bout the eggseptional long Q...........x

Public Comments

1. yeah baby.... ur a hot gecko and I want my eggs to be wit u :P
2. That is yuck. I'm never eating eggs again.
3. only if your cooking it.
4. is this a question or a statement?
5. Lol yes with some orang juice please
6. I eat anything that pops out of a shell. I like your long question too. My head has been pretty level until now and when I scrolled down on your lengthy inquiry a crook popped outta my neck. My fourth vertebrae is back in place as well. Hell, your freakishly long question has touched me in so many ways. So many, many ways.........
7. that's actually really nasty, I came on here for a little love ya know? and I come out with a terrifying image of geckos in my Benedict....*shudders*