A team of researchers from the University of Delhi has discovered a unique set of fossilized dinosaur eggs with one egg nesting within the other at the Dinosaur Fossil National Park in Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n The Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of Central India is long known for its dinosaur fossils.<\/span><\/p>\n In this region, researchers recently discovered 52 titanosaurid dinosaur nests at the Dinosaur Fossil National Park in Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n One of these nests consisted of 10 eggs, one of which was the \u201cabnormal\u201d egg with one egg nesting within the other.<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>eggs-within-eggs are rare phenomena. They are so far known to occur only in birds and have never been known in reptiles. This discovery brings out newer connections between reptilian and avian evolution.<\/span><\/p>\n Titanosaurs were a diverse group of <\/span>sauropod<\/b> dinosaurs. The dinosaurs of the Sauropod family were among the largest land animals that have ever lived and were widespread millions of years ago in the territory that is now India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fossils of these animals have been found in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh as well as Meghalaya.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c\u2018Abnormal\u2019 dinosaur egg in India digs up new questions for evolution\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> The Hindu <\/b>on 13th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? A team of researchers from the University of Delhi has discovered a unique set of fossilized dinosaur eggs with one egg nesting within the other at the Dinosaur Fossil National Park in Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh. What did the researchers find? The Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of Central India is… Continue reading \u2018Abnormal\u2019 dinosaur egg in India digs up new questions for evolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-190271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704847324},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What did the researchers find?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the significance of this discovery?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are <\/b>Titanosaurs?<\/b><\/h5>\n