Re: T. bataar eggs...again

[Crpntr@ix.netcom.com (Kenneth Carpenter)]

McAllister wrote: 

>
>OK one more question about the eggs. Whay about sacrificing an egg and 
>doing repeated thin sections by grinding off a fraction of a millimeter 
>at a time, enhancing (however) the face of the polished section, 
>photographing it and using the same software that the MRI people use to 
>combine repeated MRI sections into a 3-D view? If there are multiple 
>eggs, a few unhatched, it might be worthg trying this once. Thoughts?
>

Sure, or another way is to acid prepare the egg.  I have seen some 
fossil turtle and segnosaur eggs prepared this way.  The embryos lay 
at the bottom of the lower half of the egg.  Damn wish I could have 
afforded them.

Kenneth carpenter