Sparkly Rock in Museum Turns Out to Be 60-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg
140 years ago, an agate specimen from India was registered in the Mineralogy Collection at London’s Natural History Museum. Now, a team of researchers say the suspiciously spherical agate formed inside a 60-million-year-old dinosaur egg.Spiders Catapult From SexThe agatized egg likely belonged to atitanosaur, which were common in what is now India during the Cretaceous. (Earlier this year, nearly 100 titanosaur nests in India were comprehensively identified and documented.)Robin Hansen, a mineral curator at the museum,!-->!-->!-->!-->…