Lizard ‘found inside hen egg’
May 16, 2008An Australian doctor cracked open hen’s egg to make his dinner - and says he found a fully formed gecko lizard inside.
Dr Peter Beaumont, 60, said: “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 insisted the lizard had not got into the shell after he’d cracked it open because the reptile was embedded between the inner-shell and the egg’s membrane.
He believes it 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 has taken the egg, which he bought from a Darwin supermarket, to health experts to examine. ananova
So watch out next time 
may have crawled into the chicken to feast on an embryo
Maybe this happens all the time
yikes!
Strange gecko’s naaa … but still watch out next time
Who knows they like apples too