Huge Dinosaur Eggs found in Chechnya

[reason]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...UqABA.facebook

A team of explorers in Chechnya have accidentally discovered what they say is the largest batch of fossilized dinosaur eggs in a mountainous area south of the republic.
The cache, the first of its kind found in Chechnya, contains 40 or so eggs and is believed to date back some 60 million years. The explorers also believe they were laid by plant eating dinosaurs.
The team of geographers stumbled up on the eggs as they were studying two uncharted waterfalls.


“There are boulders on the slopes of the mountain, and among them we noticed smooth globes,” expedition member Said Magomed Dzhabrailov, who heads Chechen State University’s Landscape Explorations Laboratory, said. “We got closer and saw that they didn’t look like stones. We concluded that they were dinosaur eggs because the s s, the whites and the yolks were clearly visible. Their diameter ranges between 63 centimetres and one meter,” which would be around three feet.
While most of the Chechen scientists are ”90 percent” certain of their find, one is not convinced.
Ramzan Vagapov, one of the expedition members, says he does not believe the eggs were laid by dinosaurs and will deliver a sample to a group of Russian palaeontologists for further testing including carrying out a series of radiocarbon dating tests.



How long before Jurassic Park opens!?

[MaNuMaNiAc]

1 meter in diameter?? jesus

[Gutter92]

Can they still hatch? Like if they put a couple of lambs to sit on them and keep them warm, is it still possible for them to hatch, or is there a certain amount of time an egg has to hatch before it no longer can?

[z0sa]

Can they still hatch? Like if they put a couple of lambs to sit on them and keep them warm, is it still possible for them to hatch, or is there a certain amount of time an egg has to hatch before it no longer can?

wouldn't they feel more comfortable being incubated by a reptile? they didn't even have mammals back then and tearing apart your mother for food seconds after birth sounds traumatizing.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

That'd make a killer omelette

[Gutter92]

wouldn't they feel more comfortable being incubated by a reptile? they didn't even have mammals back then and tearing apart your mother for food seconds after birth sounds traumatizing.

so what would you categorize lambs at? non-reptilian?

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Gutter92, if this is your idea of a troll job, you failed miserably

[redzero]

God put them there to test our faith.

[DisAsTerBot]

so what does the doubting scientist think they are??!?!?!

[DisAsTerBot]

wouldn't they feel more comfortable being incubated by a reptile? they didn't even have mammals back then and tearing apart your mother for food seconds after birth sounds traumatizing.

also, reptiles don't incubate or sit on eggs, they typically bury their eggs. If you want something to sit on eggs you get a chicken

[z0sa]

also, reptiles don't incubate or sit on eggs, they typically bury their eggs. If you want something to sit on eggs you get a chicken

well in jurassic park I remember that baby raptor hatching in the incubator... I always knew michael crichton was a phony

[z0sa]

so what would you categorize lambs at? non-reptilian?

mammalian?

[Big Worm]

Considering the earth is over 4 billion years old those are some young eggs.

[DarkReign]

wouldn't they feel more comfortable being incubated by a reptile? they didn't even have mammals back then and tearing apart your mother for food seconds after birth sounds traumatizing.

Octopus do it all the time. Once the eggs hatch, she lies still and dies so her brood can eat her in safety.

[DarkReign]

Considering the earth is over 4 billion years old those are some young eggs.

You do realize when someone says 4 billion years, that number indicates when the Earth took shape from our star's leftovers and dust, right?

It would take almost another 2 billion years before the Earth even remotely cooled, much less had liquid water.

[Wild Cobra]

Didn't you get the memo...

They are rocks.

[scampers]

Just big rocks.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/18/...ubt/?hpt=hp_t2

[IronMaxipad]

Those are too big to be dinosaur eggs.

[Wild Cobra]

Those are too big to be dinosaur eggs.

When I saw that on last night's news, I didn't think they were eggs. Not because of their huge size, but because of the inconsistent sizes.

[MannyIsGod]

Didn't you get the memo...

They are rocks.

If they weren't so big I'd say they'd go nicely with the ones in your head.

[Wild Cobra]

If they weren't so big I'd say they'd go nicely with the ones in your head.

Ha. ha...

You ever going to be serious again?

[lefty]

Octopus do it all the time. Once the eggs hatch, she lies still and dies so her brood can eat her in safety.

People from Detroit know their Octopus very well

[Wild Cobra]

[RandomGuy]

You do realize when someone says 4 billion years, that number indicates when the Earth took shape from our star's leftovers and dust, right?

It would take almost another 2 billion years before the Earth even remotely cooled, much less had liquid water.

It then took almost a billion years for the first real multi-cellular organisms to arise, when photosynthesis finally started producing enough oxygen to really kick things off.

The rest... is ongoing.

[z0sa]

Octopus do it all the time. Once the eggs hatch, she lies still and dies so her brood can eat her in safety.

I knew lower orders of creatures did that but considering how smart/evolved octopi are that's actually quite fascinating.