These photographs appeared in this week's issue of The New Scientist. Some sort of marsupial? Nope. It's a miraculous, accidental appearance of a human egg. While performing a hysterectomy, Dr. Jacques Donnez of Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, managed to capture human ovulation on camera. Ovulation has been thought of as an event in which the egg sort of erupts from the ovary. Not so. The egg in these photographs took about fifteen minutes to be expelled. The findings and photographs will be published in the next issue of Fertility and Sterility.~Postscript: Argh. I am sorry about the lack of open-source material in academia. If you want the F&S article, email me.
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