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Title: Identify this egg?
Post by: cassava on July 31, 2005, 18:22:27
I found an 'egg' on a walk this weekend, it looked at first like a mushroom but was quite firm and rubbery, poking it with a stick made the skin peel off and inside was a semi-opaque jelly with 'something' inside looking like an embryo. It was about the size of a golfball, smooth and whiteish and half buried in pine - actually there were 2 of them. Was this a snake's egg? It was definitely organic!
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: Roy Bham UK on July 31, 2005, 20:52:16
Dinosaur ;D (http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4651/tyrannosaurusrexdinoanimated6l.gif) (http://imageshack.us)
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: TEL on July 31, 2005, 21:08:03
That sounds like a snake egg.
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on July 31, 2005, 23:08:11
Not a snake egg, they're a lot smaller than that, with liquid contents. I once had a grass snake which laid eggs about an inch long. I think you may have found an early stage in the development of a fungus, Phallus impudicus (what a name!), which is sometmes called the 'witch's egg' at this stage. Have a look at the pics here http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/T1754.HTM .
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: dibberxxx on August 01, 2005, 15:16:30
i will go with Roy on this one defiantly dinosaur ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 01, 2005, 18:58:04
Duckbilplatypus ? And no, didn't spell check......!! ;D Lottie
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: redimp on August 01, 2005, 21:17:01
Sounds like an egg that has been put in vinegar for a couple of days.  The shell rots and can be peeled off and the inside of the egg becomes jelly/rubber like.  However, none of the ones I have done have appeared to have foetuses/embryoes in.
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: Roy Bham UK on August 01, 2005, 22:17:50
;D You may find these eggs and many other strange phenomenons happen over this period of time up until the beginning of September :-X ;D
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: Mrs Ava on August 02, 2005, 00:09:08
Not a dunnock then Roy?
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: Roy Bham UK on August 02, 2005, 00:16:07
 ;D I'm not saying :-X ;D
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 03, 2005, 18:19:20
Awww, go on please...  Lottie  ;D
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: dibberxxx on August 03, 2005, 20:47:21
spill the beans Roy
Title: Re: Identify this egg?
Post by: undercarriage plan on August 03, 2005, 22:51:01
Give him a tenner, Dibber....out of all those millons of yours...!! ;D Lottie