Discovery of ‘World’s Largest’ Dinosaur Eggs Hatches Doubt (told ya so)
Scientists from Russia’s Chechen State University claim to have unearthed at least 40 of the world’s largest “dinosaur eggs,” measuring up to 3 feet in diameter and dating back roughly 60 million years. Apparently, while blasting through rocks to build a road in southern Russia’s turbulent Chechnya region, workers found a cluster of smooth, elliptical fossils embedded in the mountainside, Reuters reports.
The positive media attention comes as a welcome respite for the Chechnya region, which has endured two decades of brutal violence thanks to two separatist wars and an Islamist insurgency. In recent years, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen Republic, has been pouring millions of dollars into construction, preservation and tourism projects in an effort to recast the region’s image.
But the good news may be short-lived; skepticism among paleontologists quickly followed the announcement. “Unfortunately, it’s not true. Dinosaurs laid small eggs,” paleontologist Valentina Nazarova of the Moscow State University told Reuters, adding that the location of the find was suspicious as well. “Dinosaurs didn’t lay eggs while jumping about like mountain goats.”
Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/18/discovery-of-worlds-largest-dinosaur-eggs-hatches-doubt/#ixzz1sV0QqWmn
A few of us got this right when it was first reported 
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