When the Chicxulub asteroid came crashing down on Earth, it was like a scene straight out of Jurassic Park. There were dinosaurs everywhere, running for their lives, trying to escape the fiery doom that was headed their way. You had T-Rexes roaring, Velociraptors sprinting, and Triceratops charging. It was like a prehistoric rush hour on steroids.
And just when you thought the asteroid was going to miss, BAM! Extinction event. It was like an asteroid-sized game of Whack-a-Mole, only instead of moles, it was dinosaurs. And instead of a mallet, it was an asteroid.
In other words, don’t be surprised if paleontologists unearth a huge number of dinosaur fossils, and we’ll be talking about something like that in this article.
Paleontologists unearth 256 dinosaur egg fossils
A team of paleontologists in India has made a remarkable discovery while studying the Narmada valley in central India. Over the course of three years, spanning from 2017 to 2020, they uncovered 92 unique dinosaur nesting sites and 256 fossilized dinosaur eggs, according to CBS News. This is an incredible find, not just in terms of the number of sites and eggs discovered but also the insight it provides into dinosaur behavior.
The fossils of eggs that have been found have provided valuable insights into the habits and reproductive biology of the titanosaurs. These eggs are not just ordinary fossils. They are a precious window into the past that can help us understand how these magnificent creatures lived and reproduced.
The researchers wrote in their study, as CBS News quotes:
These observations indicate that the reproductive biology of sauropod dinosaur is more similar to that of archosaurs (crocodiles, birds) than to non-archosaurian reptiles.
Titanosaurs were a group of large, long-necked dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, around 80 to 65 million years ago. They are known for their massive size, with some species reaching up to 100 feet in length and weighing as much as 100 tons.
The new study was published in PLOS ONE.
