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Dinosaur eggs mislabelled for years
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Dinosaur eggs mislabelled for years
CALGARY -- The first clue something was wrong was the shape of the dinosaur
eggs -- long and pointed at one end rather than smooth and round.
By The Vancouver Sun November 14, 2008
CALGARY -- The first clue something was wrong was the shape of the dinosaur
eggs -- long and pointed at one end rather than smooth and round.
The fossilized nest that contained five of the 12-centimetre-long eggs sat
mislabelled in a private Calgary collection for years, its significance
undetected.
But a closer look by University of Calgary paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky
determined the eggs were not, in fact, the rounded, "dime-a-dozen ...
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