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An Egg Within an Egg

Posted by Adam Kuban, July 30, 2007

20070730eggwithinegg.jpgIf you cook with bell peppers, you've probably cut one open at some time and have seen the phenomenon of the pepper within a pepper. But an egg within an egg is a little more freaky and rare.

It was the first Sydney University poultry science professor Tom Scott had seen in his 30-year career. He says a normal egg disturbed in the shell gland could move back up into the oviduct and start production all over again, resulting in an egg inside an egg.

Sorta puts a new spin on the "which came first" debate.

Photograph from stuff.co.nz

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