He then saw the manner in which the eggs of these animals lie in the womb. In this creature there were six eggs, each of the size of a goose egg, but longer, more pointed, and covered with a membranous skin, by which also they were united to each other.... A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles ... - Page 269 by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 Full view -
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