In my article Geologists in southern India have found hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters which could be about 65 million years old. The excavation took place in ancient riverbed in the state of Tamil Nadu. They ended up finding fossilized dinosaur eggs about the size of dinosaur eggs. Some dinosaur eggs were first recorded in the same district by a British geologist in the 1860s. They found eggs layered in the same spot that proved that the dinosaur came back year after year to lay its eggs in the same place. Also they found a layer of volcanic dust over the eggs maybe showing that they went extinct by a volcanic explosion. Another thing that they found was that the eggs were infertile and they are still trying to figure out why. The eggs belong to a massive herbivore dinosaur a Sauropod. The dinosaur is described as “large, four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs with bulky bodies, long necks and tails and tiny heads with relatively small brains.”
There were a few things that I found very interesting about this article first is how many eggs they found in the area. I was amazed to hear that the Sauropod would come back to the same spot every year to lay its eggs. I found this interesting because of how the Sauropod showed traits of animals today. Another thing that was interesting was how the Sauropods went extinct by a volcanic explosion rather than a meteorite. But what I was most interested in was why there were so many eggs and why they were fertile. I found this could be important because maybe there was a disease that forced these massive dinosaurs to go extinct. And finally I picked this article because we just watched a documentary on these dinosaurs Thursday.
References
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8284695.stm
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