Infertile Dinosaur Eggs Found In India

Galvasean

Literally hundreds of soccer ball sized dinosaur eggs (most likely to have been from a species of giant long neck sauropod found in India).
Dated from the very end of the Cretaceous period (just before the giant dinosaurs went extinct), they may offer a clue as to why these dinosaurs went extinct. Volcanic activity appears to have been a factor.

The important finding is that these eggs have been found in different layers that means the dinosaurs came to the place over and over year after year," he said.

"The second important thing is that we have got volcanic ash deposits on the eggs which suggests that volcanic activity could have caused their extinction.

"The other thing we have found is that all these eggs are unhatched and infertile. So what made the eggs infertile? We need to carry out further studies to learn more from the findings."

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RichieO

Is it possible, the fact that they were infertile means nothing sinister, many creatures lay eggs, fertile or not... We had 4 chickens, one apparently was not laying, until we found it's hidden nest with nearly 30 eggs in it, all were infertile as there was no cock around. Maybe it was a very common occurrence with dinosaurs too?