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Egg inside egg found at breakfast

Double egg shell
The phenomenon is known as "ovum in ovo"

A woman from Somerset discovered another egg inside the boiled egg she was preparing to eat for her breakfast.

Ann Lewis, 47, from Taunton, said she had eaten plenty of "double-yolkers" before but that she was very surprised at the unusual find.

Douglas Russell, from the Natural History Museum, said: "A complete egg found within a complete egg is relatively rare."

Ms Lewis, who works as a waitress, bought the egg from a local farm.

Experts puzzled

Douglas Russell, speaking about the phenomenon in the New Scientist, said: "As the curator of the British Natural History Museum egg collection, I've come across quite a few examples of egg oddities.




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