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Huge meat-eating dinosaurs that stalked a vast floodplain some 150 million years ago in what is now Portugal left behind traces of their progeny: eggshells.
Some of the eggshells, which belonged to two Jurassic-Era theropods, or a group of carnivorous dinosaurs, once harbored embryos of Torvosaurus, the largest predator of its day.
"It was the equivalent of the T. rex in the Cretaceous," said study co-author Vasco Ribeiro, a paleontologist at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal.
Ribeiro and his colleagues arent sure how the eggs came to be abandoned.
Read more and copyright photo at link: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/08/05/rare-dinosaur-find-abandoned-nests/#ixzz2b6uro1Er
Some of the eggshells, which belonged to two Jurassic-Era theropods, or a group of carnivorous dinosaurs, once harbored embryos of Torvosaurus, the largest predator of its day.
"It was the equivalent of the T. rex in the Cretaceous," said study co-author Vasco Ribeiro, a paleontologist at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal.
Ribeiro and his colleagues arent sure how the eggs came to be abandoned.
Read more and copyright photo at link: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/08/05/rare-dinosaur-find-abandoned-nests/#ixzz2b6uro1Er
