Find hundreds of nesting dinosaur eggs in India

On October 2, geologists reported that hundreds of fossil dinosaur eggs were found, each containing 8 eggs in sand dunes in Tamil Nadu state, southern India.

Periyar University geologist M. Ramkumar said: ' The found eggs are about 65 million years old. Each nest has a diameter of about 1.2m, all eggs are spherical and the diameter of each egg is about 13-20cm. Some eggs are thought to be carnivorous, carnosaurs, carnivorous dinosaurs; and the other eggs are thought to be of Sauropods - a giant dinosaur with a long neck, eating grass '.

According to The Times of India's report : ' Fossils of Carnosaurs and Sauropods were found in the village of Sendurai and the center of Ariyalur district, Tamil Nadu state, southern India. These are famous areas with fossil dinosaur eggs up to 140 million years old. The first eggs were discovered here in 1860 by an English geologist, while some other eggs were discovered in 1990 in a nearby factory . '

New dinosaur eggs were discovered.They are currently on display at Indroda fossil park, Gandhinagar town, Gujarat state, India (Photo: PhysOrg)

The nest of dinosaur eggs buried under volcanic ash that scientists believe is due to intense eruptions in the Deccan era . Huge swarms of ashes surrounded the air and lava flows that stretched for hundreds of kilometers caused climate changes, possibly leading to the widespread extinction of dinosaurs that occurred at the time. there.

Scientists said it was surprising to find a " treasure " of dinosaur eggs while they located to excavate an ancient river in Tamil Nadu state - a research institute's research project. Germany and India invest. When digging, they found eggs that were arranged in different layers.

This is a large number of dinosaur eggs that geologists have never found in India, all of which have not yet hatched. The location of digging dinosaur eggs has been fenced to prevent vandalism.

Dr. M. Ramkumar and his colleagues called on the Indian federal government to try to protect the area of ​​finding dinosaur eggs. Fossil egg samples were sent to Germany for further research.