A couple were shell-shocked after cracking open an egg for dinner just to find another smaller one inside, Perrenporth, Cornwall, England, UK.
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Jane Keast was preparing dinner when she decided to crack open one extremely large egg, which she suspected to have a double yolk, but found another whole egg instead.
The egg was tiny but its shell was perfectly intact. Baffled with the unusual discovery Jane called her husband Chris, who took the photos of the eggs and later described the incident.
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This egg-inside-an-egg situation is not unheard of
He said: “We have got 19 chickens and sell on the eggs to neighbours and friends and family but always have a surplus. When I collected the eggs one evening, there was this rather large one that I suspected might have a double yolk inside which I have come across before. When Jane later cooked some bacon and eggs for dinner she used the large one. When she cracked it open in the pan and shouted for me to come and look. I have never seen anything like it before. It was much smaller than the first egg and perfectly round. Jane cracked the second egg open but it was just the white.”
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Despite bewilderment of Internet users experts say that the egg-inside-an-egg phenomenon is not entirely uncommon.
It is called a counter-peristalsis contraction and occurs when the hen is in the process of forming an egg and another egg cell that becomes the yolk of the egg is released too soon.
In April this year one man uploaded a video to Youtube showing him cracking a giant egg to reveal another fully formed egg inside:
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PHOTO, VIDEO: Couple Find Egg Within Egg And Internet Goes Crazy About It
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