Author Topic: What came first, the egg or the gecko? (Read 2032 times)

kimmer · « **on:** May 17, 2008, 11:42:51 AM »

Story is here.

Joke? True? Weird?

Gregg · « **Reply #1 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

kimmer · « **Reply #2 on:** May 17, 2008, 07:57:29 PM »

Very coincidental, that's why I questioned it.

I couldn't find it on Snopes either.

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #3 on:** May 18, 2008, 04:40:58 PM »

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

tacit · « **Reply #4 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

kimmer · « **Reply #5 on:** May 19, 2008, 02:50:36 AM »

Thanks for that, tacit.

Gregg · « **Reply #6 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.

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Author Topic: What came first, the egg or the gecko? (Read 2032 times)