'Eggless' Chick Laid by Hen in Sri Lanka

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A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.

Instead of passing out of the hen's body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched inside the hen.

The chick is fully formed and healthy, although the mother has died.

The government veterinary officer in the area said he had never seen anything like it before.

PR Yapa, the chief veterinary officer of Welimada, where it took place, examined the hen's carcass.

He found that the fertilised egg had developed within the hen's reproductive system, but stayed inside the hen's body until it hatched.

A post-mortem conducted on the hen's body concluded that it died of internal wounds.

The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that the story has made headlines in Sri Lanka, with the Sri Lankan Daily Mirror's concluding: "The chicken came first; not the egg."

Source : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/17769677

[chawk610]

World is ending... this is the proof we needed!

[Azimuth]

Aww, the world's first living abortion. Right

[Faline]

[Brometheus]

evolution..

[ices]

No the chick just hatched un-noticed inside or outside the mummy.

Chickens dont change their biology without people noticing.

[juanmigual]

Originally Posted by chawk610

World is ending... this is the proof we needed!

The sky is falling!

[juanmigual]

Originally Posted by Brometheus

evolution..

A fly gave birth to a live and seemingly healthy maggot the size of a grain of rice on the lip of my coffee cup one morning. UGH!

[Brometheus]

^ lol wtf?

[cholaschoo]

I thought this was going to be about humans. wtf? :(