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| Cretaceous eggs, Dallas Natural Sciences Museum, "Chinasaurs" exhibit |
Happy Easter, everyone!
According to a press release from the University of Leicester, certain Easter eggs available in the UK resemble dinosaur eggs more closely than they do bird eggs. The press release is here: "Dino Eggs Shape Easter Eggs, says new Study."
The study appeared in the current issue of Paleontology and was part of an effort to determine whether newly-found eggs (Sankofa pyrenaica) from the Cretaceous of Spain were laid by dinosaurs or birds. As seen below, at least one Easter egg closely resembles to the newly-discovered Sankofa:
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| Comparison of bird (light grey), dino (dark), and Easter (colored) |
Nieves Lopez-Martinez and Enric Vicens I Batet, “A new peculiar dinosaur egg, Sankofa pyrenaica oogen. nov. oosp. nov. from the Upper Cretaceous coastal deposits of the Aren Formation, south-central Pyrenees, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain,” Paleontology 55 (2): 325-339 (2012).
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| Dinosaur eggs, Dallas Natural Sciences Museum, "Chinasaurs" exhibit |
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