Collecting Dinosaur Egg Fossils - Learn and Buy
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Own a genuine dinosaur egg for your collection
Looking for a dinosaur egg to add to your collection? This buyers guide shows you what to look for and where to buy. The Oviraptor Egg and Hadrosaur Egg are the most readily available fossil specimens and you can also find more unusual dinosaur eggs on sale. Whole nests of dinosaur eggs make a great collectors item or museum exhibit.
Read through to the bottom of this page to find a free educational documentary to watch online: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. The program is excellent and will bring your dinosaur egg collection to life (well not really! but in your imagination).
You'll also find our collection of gifts for the dinosaur egg collector in your life.
[ Image: A Fossilized Dinosaur Egg, Probably of the Sauropod Hypselosaurus
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Updated: 19 Feb 2011
Read through to the bottom of this page to find a free educational documentary to watch online: Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. The program is excellent and will bring your dinosaur egg collection to life (well not really! but in your imagination).
You'll also find our collection of gifts for the dinosaur egg collector in your life.
[ Image: A Fossilized Dinosaur Egg, Probably of the Sauropod Hypselosaurus
- Buy This Allposters.com ]
Updated: 19 Feb 2011
About Dinosaur Eggs
Dinosaur Egg Shape
Dinosaur eggs aren't bird egg-shaped. Dinosaur eggs are symmetrical along their length. They range from rounded spherical balls to elongated torpedo shapes.
This article includes so good pictures of dinosaur eggs of a variety of shapes and sizes.
This article includes so good pictures of dinosaur eggs of a variety of shapes and sizes.
Advice for buying dinosaur eggs
Getting a genuine dinosaur egg, not a fake
eBay offers eBay buyer protection which can be used if the dinosaur egg you receive is not as described. Many of the sellers of genuine dinosaur eggs on eBay are very much aware of buyers concerns, it is common to offer a money back guarantee directly.
- Fossils-Beware of fake fossils- teeth / bones / eggs
- An article warning about buying fossils from China which is illegal for genuine specimens. Recommends buying from a US or UK based eBay seller who has imported the fossils themselves.
- Which is the genuine dinosaur egg?
- Paleontology advice from the American Museum of Natural History.
Dinosaur Egg Facts and Resources
- Dinosaur Eggs and Babies
- Teaching resource that explains the basic facts about dinosaur eggs. Great for kids, but covers the basics for adults too.
- Dinosaur Eggs in Argentina Video
- Travel to Argentina and learn about dinosaur eggs.
Live dinosaur egg auctions
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Oviraptor Egg Fossils on eBay
Dinosaur fossils
The Oviraptor is so named as its fossils were first discovered with fossilized dinosaur eggs. Paleontologists assumed that the oviraptor was stealing the eggs to eat them. On the contrary, they were oviraptor eggs being looked after by their mother!
Oviraptor eggs make a great conversation piece or museum exhibit along with the story of how the oviraptor got its name. If you're lucky you might find a nest of Oviraptor eggs looking for a new home.
Oviraptor eggs make a great conversation piece or museum exhibit along with the story of how the oviraptor got its name. If you're lucky you might find a nest of Oviraptor eggs looking for a new home.
Rare Dinosaur Eggs on eBay
Dinosaur Egg Nest or with a baby inside
Rare unusual specimens
Dinosaurs often layed multiple eggs in a nest. Sometimes a dinosaur egg is found unhatched with a dinosaur embryo inside.
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Book: Eggs, Nests and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction
Gifts for Dinosaur Egg Collectors
T-Shirt, Hoodie, Mug, Cup
Click through to Zazzle to find these designs on lots of different products. They make great gifts for dinosaur egg collectors. And yes it's fine to buy them for yourself :-)
Baby Dinosaur in Egg by silly_strings
I DIG FOSSILS Allosaurus - mug by Primalbeasts
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