Woman hatching a baby from an egg she has incubated. Incident reported by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus (c485-425 BC). Woodcut from Conrad Lyc

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Woman hatching a baby from an egg she has incubated. Incident reported by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus (c485-425 BC). Woodcut from Conrad Lycosthenes Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, Basel, 1557.

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