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Egg Inside An Egg

By Miss Cellania in Odd News on Nov 2, 2008 at 10:15 pm


A chicken raised at a high school in Japan laid a giant egg. Inside was another egg!

The huge egg, which was 8.1 centimeters high and weighed 158 grams, was laid at the Yokaichi Minami High School in the city of Higashiomi in late October. The egg was scheduled to be displayed after grabbing headlines in local and national newspapers.

But school teachers decided on Friday to remove the shell by using a scalpel and tweezers after finding a crack. They later discovered another medium-sized egg inside the giant egg as the yolk and the white portion spurted out.

There are now plans to break the second egg to see what’s inside. Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!


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  1. Johnny Cat
    Nov 2nd, 2008 at 10:52 pm

    There's a totally awesome "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" lesson to be learned here, I just can't quite grok it.

  2. Dan Smith
    Nov 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    ^^ Eggs came first. Dinosaurs laid eggs for millions of years before chickens evolved.

    I bet there is white and yolk yellow inside the regular egg, just like a regular egg!

  3. Ali S.
    Nov 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 pm

    In humans this would be like one twin growing in the other twin as embryos...correct?

  4. Johnny Cat
    Nov 2nd, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    @Dan

    That's true, and it's been my pet answer for decades.

  5. Robolasse
    Nov 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 am

    I wonder what would have happened if the egg would have been hatched. Would egg #2 have hatched too, inside egg/chicken #1?

  6. JohnP
    Nov 3rd, 2008 at 6:17 am

    @Robolasse

    I'm picturing that scene from Alien

    But I bet inside egg #2 there is an Egg #3

  7. kits
    Nov 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 am

    I have seen this on this site: http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

    the second egg will have no yolk!

  8. Him
    Nov 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 am

    Wow, double omelet.

  9. Jimbo
    Nov 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 am

    ...and the chicken walked funny the rest of it's life.

  10. SenorMysterioso
    Nov 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Inside the second egg was a tiny man playing a tiny harpsichord

  11. DOJ
    Nov 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    Inside the second egg is a tiny wooden Russian doll.

  12. JasonG
    Mar 12th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    This happened to me last week. My five year old, while visiting his grand parents, collected some eggs from a neighbor's farm. One was quite large and the chicken's owner told my son it would be a double yoker, but when we opened it there was another egg inside.
    The outer egg has white but no yolk. The inside egg was totally normal.

  13. Paul Njoki
    May 2nd, 2009 at 3:15 am

    I stay in Entebbe Uganda.
    On 1st May 2009 I was served with a normal sized chicken egg. On cracking the egg open, I found a small egg in side the bigger egg! I thought that may be there was no york inside the bigger egg but to my surprise there was a york not only inside the bigger egg but also inside the small one. The york in the smaller egg was white in colour as opposed the the normal yellowish normal color of the york in the bigger (outer) egg. Does anybody know what may have caused an egg to develop inside another egg?

  14. Noell Lassere
    Jan 31st, 2010 at 8:41 pm

    I found another egg inside of my egg this morning. It was the size of my small fingernail. Totally freaked me out. Had to take a picture. No one believed me.

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