Central Netted Dragon - Embryo Photo

[Shannon]

Image of both sides of a Central Netted Dragon (Ctenophorus nuchalis) embryo that was cut from the egg and found to be deceased at full term.

© 2010 Shannon Plummer. All rights reserved.

 

[GeckoJosh]

Wow they are great pics Shannon

 

[bigi]

amazing how they have stayed in the egg shape without the shell, Shannon
I would love to see them in a larger pic so all the detailed showed up more clearly than just on a laptop, but they are great shots. Im still waiting on the ultrasounds, that should be interesting, will keep u posted.

 

[Shannon]

Thanks Bigi,

I carefully cut the egg away - but was pretty lucky to have the yolk etc stay in tact - ran straight for the camera as you can imagine ; p

Detail shots as requested, excuse the downsampling, I didn't want to make them too big for this site.

Can't wait to hear about the ultrasounds!! How are your guys doing?

 

[jinin]

Nice pics, same thing happened to 11 of my Pygmy Bearded eggs 8[ .

 

[shane14]

have had 3 so far like that out of 27

 

[lizardjasper]

Poor little thing. Does anyone have a problem with your central netted babies dying just after their first shed, when everything else is fine?

 

[naledge]

That is very strangely, beautiful.

If it wasn't so creepy it'd probably look really nice framed on a wall.

Wonderful photography.