OOPS!!! Not Fish. Just Dinosaur Eggs.

[Oddball]

I thought I was removing another box containing fossil fish (to add to the thread). Instead I found several of my dinosaur egg specimens. I figured someone might like to see them. So, here you go:

This first piece is an egg shard from a Titanosauridae. It's from the Cretaceous period of Argentina. The second piece is a free-form polished cabochon, I ground from the same material, to display the pores the dinosaur embryo used for respiration.

[Oddball]

Next is a "crushed in the nest" egg of a dinosaur called Saltosaurus from the Cretaceous Formation, Allen Location, Patagonia, Argentina. It's thought the crushing occurred after the eggs hatched when the migrating dinosaurs, and their young, left for better seasonal grazing grounds. The nests would have been ignored, after the eggs all hatched, and were trampled as the herd moved off the nesting grounds.

[Oddball]

From another part of the globe, is a partial nest containing 2 melon-size eggs of a Hadrosaurid dinosaur. These are from the Late Cretaceous period of the Xixia Basin, Henan Province, China.

[Oddball]

This is one of my favorite finds. This egg belonged to the Utahraptor of the Lower Cretaceous of Wyoming. It's hard enough to find a dinosaur egg piece, much less an egg from a predator. The territorial imperative calls for 100 prey animals needed to support a major predator. That means there will always be less predator material to be found than prey material.
Utahraptor is the pack hunting dinosaur featured in Jurassic Park movies. Now, before you all start pointing out that this dino is from the cretaceous instead of the jurassic, here's a tidbit for you. The books and movies were called Jurassic Park because the name Jurassic presented better than the word Cretaceous. The dinosaurs in the movie were, in fact, from the Cretaceous period. Jurassic dinosaurs were smaller (Albertosaurs were 28ft precursors to the 40ft T-Rex) than the true monsters of the Cretaceous period.

[cburkhart78]

:popcorn: Great stuff Oddball.

[moxxommox]

wow odd, that's pretty cool =) keep 'em comming!

[Euge]

woah thats bad ass.

[dr_sudz]

You are a man of many tallents oddball!

[joeytoe]

No t-rex egg Oddball?

[Oddball]

No t-rex egg Oddball?

As far as I know, there have only been 2 incomplete T-Rex eggs ever identified. IF I had one, I'd probably have it confiscated as a national treasure.

[Taz2478]

pretty crazy, how the hell you find em and know they real?

[ewurm]

You should try and hatch them, LOL.

[jedi master]

COOL:eek:

[-[ SteG ]-]

Very Interesting reading Oddball, And the supporting pictures are great too. :)

[SharkWeekRocks]

very cool stuff

[1ra8der]

THAT'S SOME SWEET INFO. THANK'S ODDBALL KEEP THAT INFO COMMING....:popcorn: :eek: :popcorn:

[koff]

cool

[davo]

Damn you have such a cool collection.

[fish head )'>]

awesome, thanks for sharing.:D

[Malbri]

lol I think my science teacher would love you

[sandtiger]

Utahraptor is the pack hunting dinosaur featured in Jurassic Park movies. Now, before you all start pointing out that this dino is from the cretaceous instead of the jurassic, here's a tidbit for you. The books and movies were called Jurassic Park because the name Jurassic presented better than the word Cretaceous. The dinosaurs in the movie were, in fact, from the Cretaceous period. Jurassic dinosaurs were smaller (Albertosaurs were 28ft precursors to the 40ft T-Rex) than the true monsters of the Cretaceous period.

Not all the dinosaurs in the movie are from the Cretaceous, though you're right that many of them are. Dinosaurs like dilophosaurus, stegosaurus, compsognathus, brachiosaurus are others are representatives of the Jurassic period. You mention Albertosaurs. There were not from the Jurassic period, they lived in the late Cretaceous period.
At any rate, very impressive collection!! As you can tell I am also a dinosaur fan, I would have to say that paleontology is probably my second love after fish and I have been interested in it far longer then I have fishes. I have a couple dinosaur egg fragments but nothing like what you have. One is from a saltasaurus and the other from another sauropod, I don't know what speices exactly.

[KenyanSandBoa]

That's pretty sweet. That is a collection to brag about.

[Oddball]

Hi herp people. There was a complaint of having too many sticky threads in the Photo Lounge. I'm hoping it's OK for me to park this here until I can figure where this can find a new home.

[Jessica Dring]

Hey, lol just hi jacking the thread here. I've always been fasinated with dinos (I know quite unusual for a girl) hence my early reptile collection. Hoping to go to uni soon, if I'm not moving abroad with my family, what would you go into at uni to study this kinda thing? Im in the UK by the way. Cheers all.

[Arachnar]

cool ,i've always loved dinosaurs but the theories are tedious and varied at best. it seems they could fit in a category of their own as neither herp or mammal

[Ophiuchus]

cool ,i've always loved dinosaurs but the theories are tedious and varied at best. it seems they could fit in a category of their own as neither herp or mammal

I agree. Dinosaurs are neither reptile, nor bird nor mammal; they're dinosaurs. Their anatomy and physiology are fundamentally different than all of the above.

I love dinos, too and could talk about them all day.

[Arachnar]

dinosaurs could live in my yard anytime if they were alive now,they're totally awesome,i found that the book Dinosaur which was based on a television special was very good in explaining them,though i gotta find more books that deal with more detail about dinosaur behavior and anatomy-nice ball python always wanted one=)

[captainawesome]

those are awesome.

[Ophiuchus]

Just heard a lecture about mosasaurs this evening...was pretty interesting.

[Oddball]

Would anyone care to see some polished dino bone specimens? I have about 3 tons of bones I've collected over the years. I don't keep the brown or black bones normally encountered in museums. I keep gem grade bones.

Here's a sample. I cut this red jasper replaced bone into a stylized raptor claw.

[davo]

Would anyone care to see some polished dino bone specimens? I have about 3 tons of bones I've collected over the years. I don't keep the brown or black bones normally encountered in museums. I keep gem grade bones.

Here's a sample. I cut this red jasper replaced bone into a stylized raptor claw.

Could you explain to me the difference between gem grade bones and the brown/black bones? And is the red jasper replaced bone that you stylized into a raptor claw basically mean that the rock you used replaced the actual bone of the rapter claw and you then cut it to make it look nice and shiney or...? Wish i knew a bit more about this area.

[Oddball]

Could you explain to me the difference between gem grade bones and the brown/black bones? And is the red jasper replaced bone that you stylized into a raptor claw basically mean that the rock you used replaced the actual bone of the rapter claw and you then cut it to make it look nice and shiney or...? Wish i knew a bit more about this area.

There is very little actual dinosaur 'bone' known worldwide. Fossilized bone is a mineral replacement of bone through the precipitation (water-borne) of mineral salts and sediments. The makeup of the surrounding geology determines the type of mineral replacement occurring in the fossilization process.

Here's a fragment of non-gem grade bone. Or, as we field-collectors call it; Leaverite bone -- when you find something like this, just leave 'er right where you found it.

[davo]

so why do you need to cut it? So basically the minerals replacing the bone are better at gem quality then.

[Oddball]

As with anything, it's all about aesthetics. A jewelry maker (and buyer) would prefer a bold color stone in a jewelry piece than a drab dark stone.

[sandtiger]

I agree. Dinosaurs are neither reptile, nor bird nor mammal; they're dinosaurs. Their anatomy and physiology are fundamentally different than all of the above.

I love dinos, too and could talk about them all day.

Dinosaurs were reptiles, so are birds in fact even if our current classification does not consider them to be.

[Tylervsmith]

nice fossils

[Aquaman_95]

Very cool fossils :popcorn: :popcorn:

[synapse989]

so when are you going to extract the DNA and build your own dinosaur? ;)

really nice fossils.. congrats

[vicedretard]

oddball those must have cost you a fortune to get...nice fossils

[Onion01]

i am starting to think oddball is either bill gates or lives in the smithsonian stockroom :)

[Yakuza-Irezumi]

Oddball,i admire your work,for i beleive in evolution and i'll leave it at that,for sake of flaming.Your findings encourage my beliefs and i follow your threads with close admiration.And you have quite the fish collection.Thank You.

[catfish hippy man (dylan)]

hey i have fossil fish lol! i think mines south american

[DinosaurMeag]

That's awesome!

[Oddball]

I found another egg set this afternoon. Here's a Segnosaurus nest containing 3 eggs. They're from a Jurassic formation in China.

[LBathory]

in jurassic park they feature a dilophasaurus (sp?) though the portrayal of this dinosaur was completely false (they were as you know im sure, much taller, did not spit venom, nor had a frill) isn't this species from the jurassic period?

[Oddball]

You're correct. They're from the early jurassic.

As for movie dinosaur size. The director wanted the predators to be larger so they're present better on film. When the 1st movie was filming, velociraptors were only known to be half the movie depiction's size. Shortly after Robert Bakker left the production as a consultant, a friend of his discovered Utahraptor wyomingensis which matched the size of the raptors in the movie.

[LBathory]

HAHA so it's like Hollywood invented it, and then it actually ended up existing anyway! wow. I always thought the raptors in the movie seemed to resemble a dionicus (sp?) I figured the name "raptor" was more bad a$$ and easier to market and thats why they chose to call it that lol.

[Nabbig2]

Wow Oddball this is amazing! But how on earth do you find all these fossils? I've always wanted to find dinosaur fossils.

[Oddball]

Wow Oddball this is amazing! But how on earth do you find all these fossils? I've always wanted to find dinosaur fossils.

I'd have alot more if I could have been lucky enough to find something for each trip. Such was not the case. What I have is the result of nearly 40 years of digs.

[The Happy Tank]

FANTASTIC. thank you. the kids here loved that.

[Nabbig2]

does this need to be sticky..?

Yes, it actually does :D

[Jfitz]

FANTASTIC. thank you. the kids here loved that.
kids here?
are u a teacher or something?

[AETrono]

Wow, great stuff... :-)

[crowconor]

wow these are pretty fekin sweet how old

[TheSessh25]

I used to love dinos growing up. It's cool to see solid evidence that they were real here once.

[Megalodon Riders]

Yo oddball. How does someone go about becoming a paleoaquarist? It is extrememly interesting to me but no one i know is one and i'd appreciate some advice.

[krazy4country]

thats AWESOME my brother would flip if he saw that hes going to 'walking with dinosaurs" at the brandt center here in regina its this really cool thing with these huge anamatronics controlled dinos like megamunch here -http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn352/chefjamesscott/royal%20sask%20museum/DSC08007.jpg

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn352/chefjamesscott/royal%20sask%20museum/DSC08008.jpg

hes a trex

[jcmystery27]

Your intillect astounds me.Never stop learning.

[Amazon_Addict]

I can't wait till I'm done with school so I can do cool things like look for dino eggs.

[snakeguy101]

i think ou should incubate them... you never know. haha