A QUIET Sunday dinner has turned into an eggs-traordinary mystery.
Dr Peter Beaumont, 60, was cooking Thai fishcakes for dinner when he found a fully formed gecko inside an egg shell. He believes the discovery may be a world first and may help solve a food poisoning puzzle.
"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 said the lizard had not got into the shell after he had discarded it because the reptile was embedded between the inner-shell and the egg's membrane.
He said the gecko 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 bought the egg from a Darwin supermarket. He took it to health experts yesterday.
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