Hatchling Necropsy Pictures (Caution may be graphic to some viewers)

[spykerherps]

This is the hatchling I found yesterday morning (6/23/07) It hatched some time during the night and I found it dead in the incubator.
Its internal structure seemed out of place even looking at it from the outside. one of the organs(the Liver I believe) was green, and the stomach was full of little air bubbles that were visible from the outside as well.
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any feedback, input or info would be greatly appreciated

 

[robin]

just by the first looks it almost looks like it hemorrhaged

 

[Select Gex]

What is that in the stomach..? Almost looks like sand, but how could it be?

 

[Josh'sGeckoCloset]

Yeah it does look like sand. I wonder what it could be?

 

[paulnj]

Could that be tiny pieces of perlite maybe?

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

The green part may be what's left of the yolk sac, and it looks like it may have gone rancid. The large organ on the upper bottom part is the lung, and it looks like it only had one. The smaller, purplish stuff in the lower part of the abdomen is the intestine.

 

[trizzypballr]

Only 1 lung? Sounds like this poor little guy didnt have a chance reguardless of whats in its stomache...

 

[robin]

do geckos have two equally sized lungs? i know in snakes, they have one big large one and one teeny tiny one.

 

[BalloonzForU]

Thank you for sharing these pictures with us.

I find them very interesting.

Marcia, thank you for pointing out what we were looking at.

 

[trizzypballr]

I have no clue, I just know that having 1 lung doesnt sound very healthy, lol

 

[spykerherps]

The stuff that is in what I believe is the stomach are what I am shire are gas bubbles. they actually adjusted to the motion of the gecko when I picked it up.

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

I wonder if it swallowed air?

 

[LeosForLess]

that is a fish

 

[Bert-N-Sheila]

I've only seen one dead leo hatchling before and it was extremely dark. I do not recal it being so transparent looking. I know from common sense when the heart stops so does the blood flow, but my lord, that little one looks like it never got any type of blood flow whatsoever to extremities. Again, just stating something that probably means nothing.