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Title: What came first, the egg or the gecko?
Post by: kimmer on May 17, 2008, 11:42:51 AM

Story is here.

Joke? True? Weird?

Title: What came first, the egg or the gecko?
Post by: Gregg on May 17, 2008, 04:44:43 PM

QUOTE

The bizarre discovery was made by a doctor in Darwin...

How coincidental is that???

Didn't find it on Snopes

Title: What came first, the egg or the gecko?
Post by: kimmer on May 17, 2008, 07:57:29 PM

Very coincidental, that's why I questioned it.

I couldn't find it on Snopes either.

Title: What came first, the egg or the gecko?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on May 18, 2008, 04:40:58 PM

Well, since the egg formed around the gecko, the 'chicken' obviously came first.

Title: What came first, the egg or the gecko?
Post by: tacit on May 18, 2008, 10:51:36 PM

True. It's all over the media.

In fact, the discovery may have solved a riddle. Everyone knows that you can get salmonella from eating raw or undercooked eggs. What's not clear is how the salmonella bacteria get into the eggs. The discovery of a gecko inside a chicken's egg shows that things can enter a chicken's reproductive system from the outside, which means that bacteria can also enter a chicken's reproductive system from the outside.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/15/2245496.htm

Title: What came first, the egg or the gecko?
Post by: kimmer on May 19, 2008, 02:50:36 AM

Thanks for that, tacit.

Title: What came first, the egg or the gecko?
Post by: Gregg on May 19, 2008, 07:13:39 AM

It might be so simple that a caveman could understand it, but I'm staying away from that insurance.