Mysterious egg found in yard...

[sunburn]

Can you identify? It's almost round, with a very tough but not brittle shell. Like a medium density plastic. Very firm.

It's about an inch in diameter. Found in the grass, maybe 20 or 30 feet from a marsh. I looked up snake eggs, lizard eggs, & alligator eggs. It's similar, but not exact. It is not like any bird egg I've ever seen.

Perhaps dropped by a bird? Or maybe a traveling animal? What do you guys think?

[CWGUY]

:shrug: I read soft-shelled turtles and snapping turtles lay eggs that are as round as a ping-pong ball, but a little smaller.
Owls also lay round eggs.

[Arctic Fox]

:shrug: I read soft-shelled turtles and snapping turtles lay eggs that are as round as a ping-pong ball, but a little smaller.

Turtle egg gets my vote.

Maybe a raccoon dug up buried eggs and left one behind?

Try hatching it out

[karostay]

Crack it open

[Taltarzac725]

Can you identify? It's almost round, with a very tough but not brittle shell. Like a medium density plastic. Very firm.

It's about an inch in diameter. Found in the grass, maybe 20 or 30 feet from a marsh. I looked up snake eggs, lizard eggs, & alligator eggs. It's similar, but not exact. It is not like any bird egg I've ever seen.

Perhaps dropped by a bird? Or maybe a traveling animal? What do you guys think?

That is an interesting find. Any owls in your area? Just wondering.

[Nucky]

that is an interesting find. Any owls in your area? Just wondering.

Who?

[Taltarzac725]

Who?

A display of different types of eggs, at the Skeletons Museum of Stock Photo: 167861849 - Alamy (https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-a-display-of-different-types-of-eggs-at-the-skeletons-museum-of-osteology-167861849.html)

I had been looking at this from a museum in Orlando.

[CWGUY]

Who?

Not a :1rotfl: but a :)

[Nucky]

Not a :1rotfl: but a :)

That’s a Fact. Link to follow.

I’ll take it!:mademyday:

[rde3036]

Aliens!

[dewilson58]

Albino dog poop.


Wash Ur hands.

[BobnBev]

Rub it and see if a genie pops out......oh, wait....nevermind.:boom:

[chrisinva]

ZOMBIE egg! Handle with care.:a040:

[Two Bills]

We had a tortoise thst used to lay eggs very similar to that, so near a marsh, I would go with the turtle as well.
If it was a gold color, I would have said a goose!

[Topspinmo]

Can you identify? It's almost round, with a very tough but not brittle shell. Like a medium density plastic. Very firm.

It's about an inch in diameter. Found in the grass, maybe 20 or 30 feet from a marsh. I looked up snake eggs, lizard eggs, & alligator eggs. It's similar, but not exact. It is not like any bird egg I've ever seen.

Perhaps dropped by a bird? Or maybe a traveling animal? What do you guys think?

Crows may have raided turtle nest and dropped egg. See this around sand traps close to pond where the turtles laid eggs and the crows raid the nest they drop eggs every where.

[DAVES]

Can you identify? It's almost round, with a very tough but not brittle shell. Like a medium density plastic. Very firm.

It's about an inch in diameter. Found in the grass, maybe 20 or 30 feet from a marsh. I looked up snake eggs, lizard eggs, & alligator eggs. It's similar, but not exact. It is not like any bird egg I've ever seen.

Perhaps dropped by a bird? Or maybe a traveling animal? What do you guys think?


You stated the shell is not hard. Far as I know, no expert, all birds have hard shells on their eggs and do not abandon the nest.

So I would guess a reptile. As to identifying it, you might try the cooperative extension or perhaps a zoo. It is possible that it is still alive. Hatching it and releasing it, is an unlikely to be successful project and if it is the egg of an,"undesirable," snake or? May not be a."good," idea.

[yesi3putt2]

...but I don't think you have to sit on it to hatch it