EUROPE now has its first fossilised dinosaur embryos. The embryos are
around 140 million years old.
Amateur fossil hunters Isabel and Oratio Mateus discovered around 100 eggs,
each about 13 centimetres across, near the Portuguese seaside town of Lourinha,
60 kilometres north of Lisbon.
Four of the eggs contained bones of large meat-eating dinosaurs, says
Philippe Taquet of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He will
publish his findings this month in the journal Comptes Rendus.
