Dinosaur nest for sale (eggs included)
An exceptionally well-preserved 65 million-year-old fossilized dinosaur nest with some broken eggs exposing tiny skeletons is up for auction in Los Angeles on Sunday.
The nest of raptors, fierce predatory dinosaurs, is expected to fetch between $180,000 and $200,000.
“It is probably one of the finest dinosaur egg nests in the world. For the tiny skeletons still to be inside the eggs, folded up beautifully like this, means that they had to be almost ready to hatch,” said Thomas Lindgren, consulting director of natural history for the auction firm Bonhams and Butterfields.
Tens of thousands of dollars have been spent on scientific preparation and studies to determine exactly which of the six to eight known species of small raptor is represented by the eggs in the nest. That will be revealed in an academic paper now being prepared for publication next year.
Dinosaur embryo...totally cool conversation piece for the coffee table. Read on...
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