Scientists have been lucky enough to find lots of
fossilized dinosaur eggs, and even nests. There is a
huge variety of sizes and shapes, from
small, circular eggs that would fit
into the palm of your hand to
eggs the size of cannonballs.
Eggstraordinary eggs
Shaped like an egg?
Some dinosaur eggs
were round, but others
were elongated, rather
like a loaf of bread.
This is a hen’s egg: it
shows just how large the
Therizinosaur
egg was.
A muddy home
Some eggs were laid in mud,
which proved a perfect base for
fossilization. These are
Maiasaura
eggs from Montana, USA.
This dinosaur
egg fossil is
from Mongolia.
Oviraptor
nest from
China, showing the
eggs laid in a spiral
pattern. Each egg is
approximately 16 cm
(6 in) long.
Age of the dinosaurs
Were dinosaur egg shells soft and leathery like those of snakes?
The largest?
This massive egg
was found in China
and is thought to
have been laid by a
Therizinosaur
. There were
larger eggs – the largest
was laid by a dinosaur
called
Macroelongatoolithus.
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