PRESERVED EGGS.

Shannon News, 28 September 1923, Page 2

PRESERVED EGGS.

LAID BY DINOSAUR TEN MILLION , YEARS AGO. FOSSIL FIELD IS MONGOLIA. SHANGHAI, September 25. The American Museum natural histories expedition, under the-leader-ship of Drs. Henry Fairfield Osborn and Roy Chapman Andrews, which Is returning from the Mongolian plains, has reported the discovery of ewentyfive fossilised eggs of the dinosaur, estimated to be ten million years obi. This is the first evidence that these giant pre-historic reptiles laid eggs. They are elliptical in shape, five inches long and buff coloured from their long entombment, their disposition indicating that the diriosaur made nests similar to the domestic fowls of to-day. The expedition also discovered seventy-two skulls, twelve dinosaurian skeletons and the remains of numerous other! mammals.

Altogether, the scientists collected nine tons of fossils, which will be shipped to America. Dr. Osborn declared tiiat the Mongolia fossil beds are the largest known to the Science Association. The expedition had proved that the Mongolian ' plateau had been the centre of dispersal of the most ancient animals j r et traced.