An earlier post showing an weird fish pic has just been linked to by Fark.com, and we’ve had a sudden flurry of visitors and comments about it (go and join in!). Because I have form in the weird fish pic category, here’s one we took on a Field Course in the foothills of the Alps in 2006. It is *NOT* photoshopped. It is a genuine photo, and it genuinely happened. The fish were in the duck egg at the bottom of the pond… This made big news back in 2006 (we first sent it to New Scientist, thengot on page 3 of The Sun (!), as well has on the BBC website,, and a 5-page spread in Chinese kids magazine Young Copernicus…
Here’s what we wrote in New Scientist:
On a field course in the foothills of the French Alps in July 2006, some of our students noticed a seemingly intact duck egg in a small pond. It clearly contained something moving. When we broke the shell we found three live minnows (Phoxinus phoxinus) inside (see Photo). Do any readers know for sure how the fish ended up here?
