THE mystery of how dinosaurs laid their eggs has been solved thanks to the discovery of the first complete eggs found inside the body of the mother.
The only other eggs found in a fossilised dinosaur, in the feathered Sinosauropteryx, were too immature to have shells, so the egg-laying process was unclear. The discovery in 1993 of a brooding mother on top of her nest showed that at least some dinosaurs cared for their eggs.
The new find, in China’s Jiangxi province, shows dinosaurs laid their eggs in a series of sittings, like modern birds, rather than all at once like crocodiles and other reptiles. The…
