Walking on Eggs by Luis Chiappe and Lowell Dingus, Little, Brown,
£16.99, ISBN 0316854891
IGNORE the subtitle. This book isn’t about dinosaurs in general but about the
authors’ expeditions to Auca Mahuevo in Argentinian Patagonia, a site with
seriously interesting palaeontology. It has yielded thousands of dinosaur eggs
trapped by floods 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous. For the first time
it is clear that these are the eggs of sauropods—the “Brontosaurus”-type
beasties we all know and love. And there are baby dinosaurs in the eggs, also
nests, trails of footprints and bones of the adults, not to…
