A prehistoric treasure has resurfaced in France: 500 dinosaur eggs that spent 70 million years hidden are,..

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.... are now rewriting a vanished nesting ground

By ECONEWS
Published On: May 10, 2026 at 12:30

Southern France just got a new reminder that fossils are not always buried deep underground. During a conservation dig in the Sainte-Victoire National Nature Reserve, teams working with the Natural History Museum of Aix-en-Provence counted 552 fossil dinosaur eggs, with help from more than 160 volunteers. The operation is supported by the Department of Bouches-du-Rhône, which manages the protected site.

For anyone who has ever kicked a “boring” rock on a trail, this is a good reminder that looks can be deceiving. Nesting sites like this can reveal how dinosaurs reproduced, whether they nested close together, and what the local environment was like during the Late Cretaceous, the last stretch of dinosaur time. The big question is simple and stubborn: could an egg still hide an embryo?

More at link below,..

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/a-prehistoric-treasure-has-resurfaced-in-france-500-dinosaur-eggs-that-spent-70-million-years-hidden-are-now-rewriting-a-vanished-nesting-ground/31931/

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1. Interesting tidbit: the only North American dinosaur egg east of the Mississippi was found in AL ...

https://www.alabamapaleosoc.org/post/dinosaur-egg-with-embryo-unveiled-in-permanent-display-at-auburn-university

I wouldn't say no to another 551, though.