• Question: what is your favpurite dinosaur egg to study on ?

    Asked by face1sewn to Michael S on 6 Jun 2024.
    • Photo: Michael Schubert

      Michael Schubert answered on 6 Jun 2024:


      Interesting question! I don’t think I have a favourite dinosaur egg. Palaeontologists are usually pretty happy anytime we find well-preserved eggs. It’s quite common to find fossilised eggs and egg parts, but very rare to find the insides intact. Here’s a picture of one of the best-preserved dinosaur eggs ever found, which was an amazing discovery and taught us a lot about dinosaur embryos:

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