Good egg: rare specimen discovered after 100 years in a drawer

When curator Alan Knox came across a rare egg in a museum drawer he just had to figure out its story

Name: ABDUZ: 70169
Species: Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
Dates: 1917
Claim to fame: The only known egg of Jerdon's courser
Where now: Zoology Museum, University of Aberdeen

Alan Knox was checking museum's store room for insects when he found the egg. There, in an uncatalogued drawer of oological specimens, was a label that caught his eye.