In a remarkable find, a lustrous mineral formed inside a fossilized titanosaur egg.
Robin Hansen, a mineral curator at the museum, brought the specimen to Paul Barrett and Susannah Maidment, both dinosaur experts at the museum.
The group agreed that the agate was approximately the right shape and size to be a dinosaur eggFurthermore, the outer edges of the specimen suggested that other, similarly shaped objects were once abutting the 6-inch-wide agate—like a clutch of dinosaur eggs.. “It was identified and cataloged correctly as an agate in 1883 using the scientific knowledge available at the time ... Ithe agate has infilled this spherical structure, which turns out to be a dinosaur egg.
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