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Giant egg found floating off Brighton coast 'was relatively fresh' (From The Argus)
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Giant egg found floating off Brighton coast 'was relatively fresh'
2:40pm Tuesday 4th September 2012 in News
BIG EGG: John Cooper of the Booth Museum with the rhea egg shortly after it was discovered
A rare egg that was found floating off the Brighton coast has now been hollowed out.
The egg of a rhea – a large, flightless bird from South America – was found floating between the pier and marina last month and has now been emptied by John Cooper at the Booth Museum in Dyke Road, Brighton.
Mr Cooper said the contents removed from the egg were not an embryo but were relatively fresh which indicated that the egg may have come from a bird in the UK or Europe rather than South America as originally suggested.
Mr Cooper said he remained keen to put the egg on display but currently lacked the space to exhibit the six-inch long specimen.
Comments(22)
Enema of the peephole
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3:01pm Tue 4 Sep 12
Could Argus readers possibly know of a young couple, who recently received much attention, that could perhaps offer advice on exhibiting and finding space for a 6 inch specimen?
Crystal Ball
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3:10pm Tue 4 Sep 12
BEVIE33
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3:25pm Tue 4 Sep 12
uniteagainstparkingcharges
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3:25pm Tue 4 Sep 12
The first rotten story was eggstraordinarily bad and this second follow up article b-egg-ars belief.
Argus, Why not try doing some real invest-egg-ative reporting inst-egg?!
Al Bion
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3:47pm Tue 4 Sep 12
tom servo
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3:51pm Tue 4 Sep 12
tom servo
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3:51pm Tue 4 Sep 12
The Gnome
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4:57pm Tue 4 Sep 12
rolivan
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5:55pm Tue 4 Sep 12
The Gnome wrote:eggsactly.
It's time all these dreadful egg jokes were laid to rest.
Enema of the peephole
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6:14pm Tue 4 Sep 12
Al Bion
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6:50pm Tue 4 Sep 12
PETE OF QUEENS PARK
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7:07pm Tue 4 Sep 12
Al Bion
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7:24pm Tue 4 Sep 12
Hoarder12345444
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10:03pm Tue 4 Sep 12
Crystal Ball wrote:Darn it I was too slow.
What eggcellent news. It's so eggciting.
Wivvy Dave
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12:11am Wed 5 Sep 12
BEVIE33
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9:01am Wed 5 Sep 12
Al Bion
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9:15am Wed 5 Sep 12
F in L
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12:13pm Wed 5 Sep 12
johnjp
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10:11pm Wed 5 Sep 12
lfcrule1972
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12:22pm Thu 6 Sep 12
disgruntledHove
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9:43pm Thu 6 Sep 12
Got to love Argus for its 'wonder upon wonder what it is' stories.
chrisinbrighton says...
2:52pm Tue 4 Sep 12