Dinosaur Eggs and Nesting

The typical image of a dinosaur "birth" to most people is a single gigantic sized egg, maybe green or yellow in color with some dark shading, cracking open to reveal a pint-sized dinosaur ready for the hunt. This image has been reinforced by media portrayals in television and the movies but scientific research and discovery has proved it to be nothing more than a myth. The largest dinosaur eggs ever found were hardly as big as a football, and adult dinosaurs may have been a more important part of their offspring's lives than normally thought. The interactions of the shape and size of an egg, the eggshell structure, nest structure and egg distribution, and the nesting behavior of adult dinosaurs, and the environmental conditions were vital to the healthy development of the dinosaur embryos.
There seems to be a classification system for almost everything in the scientific world, and dinosaur eggs are no exception. There have been many changes,......

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