Walking on Eggs
The Astonishing Discovery of Thousands of Dinosaur Eggs in the Badlands of Patagonia
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Publication
2001-06-19 - Scribner, New York
Language
English
Word Count
54,750 words, Guess
Page Count
219 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewalkingoneggsast00luis
- ISBN-100743212118
- ISBN-139780743212113
- Goodreads981490
- LibraryThing148041
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001020280
- OCLC Control Number45890410
- Better World Books9780743212113
- Open LibraryOL7926912M
Classifications
- LCCQE861.6.E35 C48 2001
- LCCQE861.6.E35C48 2001
Description
Walking on Eggs is the inside story behind one of the most significant paleontological discoveries in history. In November 1997, Luis M. Chiappe and Lowell Dingus led an elite team of paleontologists and geologists into the rugged and desolate badlands of Argentina. Unsure of what they would find, Chiappe and Dingus knew that this region had produced many spectacular specimens of dinosaurs and fossil birds over the last century. Nothing could have prepared them, however, for the headline-grabbing discovery they were about to make: a massive dinosaur nesting ground covering more than a square mile and littered with tens of thousands of large, unhatched dinosaur eggs. Containing the first fossils of embryonic dinosaur skin ever found, the eggs gave rise to a host of mysteries. What species laid the eggs, and when? How were they preserved? And most intriguingly, what ancient catastrophe -- deeply rooted more than 70 million years in the past -- prevented them from hatching? - Jacket flap.
Description
"Walking on Eggs is the inside story behind one of the most significant paleontological discoveries in history. In November 1997, Luis M. Chiappe and Lowell Dingus led an elite team of paleontologists and geologists into the rugged and desolate badlands of Argentina. Unsure of what they would find, Chiappe and Dingus knew that this region had produced many spectacular specimens of dinosaurs and fossil birds over the last century. Nothing could have prepared them, however, for the headline-grabbing discovery they were about to make: a massive dinosaur nesting ground covering more than a square mile and littered with tens of thousands of large, unhatched dinosaur eggs. Containing the first fossils of embryonic dinosaur skin ever found, the eggs gave rise to a host of mysteries. What species laid the eggs, and when? How were they preserved? And most intriguingly, what ancient catastrophe - deeply rooted more than 70 million years in the past - prevented them from hatching?"--BOOK JACKET.
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