Gecko Found Inside Chicken Egg
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 21st, 2008
If you are eating eggs for breakfast, put down that fork.
The Australian Egg Corporation has expressed surprise at the discovery of a gecko inside a chicken egg.
Darwin, Australia, doctor Peter Beaumont was cooking dinner when he cracked open the egg and found the dead gecko inside the shell.
Health authorities say the discovery is nothing to be alarmed about and it is being examined at a laboratory.
The research and development program manager with the Egg Corporation, David Witcombe, says he has never heard of such a case before.
“Certainly the gecko wouldn’t have been ingested by the bird. It would be physically impossible for it to make its way from the digestive tract into the area where the egg’s formed.
“So it’s a case of the gecko actually making its way through the cloaca of the bird and onto the developing egg.”
Ooooh. That must have hurt!
No mention has been made as to whether it was thought the gecko was trying to sell insurance during its travels.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
“Ooooh. That must have hurt!” … not as much as laying the egg, no doubt!
That chicken must have sounded like a hypochondriac to the other chickens, “I think I have something walking around me insides…” Has anyone attempted to let the chicken know she’s not insane?
I had “huevos a la mexicana” this morning. Thanks a lot, Loren!!! 🙂
What crawled up your cloaca and died?
Wouldn’t you think a chicken would stop such an unwelcomed breech while the assault were still in progress? I mean, I can’t picture a gecco looking at a chicken’s cloaca, targeting, getting a running start, then making little more than a popping noise as he gains full-body entry into the poor avian.
Okay, no one else has said it, and it has to be asked:
“Which came first, the gecko or the egg?”
😉