Tag: geode
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Dinosaur Egg Geode: 70-Million-Year Crystal Surprise
Discovery and Significance A desert-like fossil bed in China yielded an extraordinary find: a grapefruit-sized dinosaur egg from roughly 70 million years ago that, instead of a baby dinosaur or sediment-filled interior, opened to a sparkling chamber of calcite crystals. This rare natural geode challenges common expectations about dinosaur eggs and offers a fresh lens…
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A 70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Reveals a Sparkling Calcite Geode
Rare Discovery in a Chinese Fossil Bed A grapefruit-sized dinosaur egg from a fossil bed in China has startled paleontologists by revealing an interior packed with sparkling calcite crystals rather than a typical embryo or sediment. This 70-million-year-old specimen, once expected to house a typical fossilized embryo or mineralized sediment, opened a window into a…