Fossil Find.(weekly)

Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)

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COPYRIGHT 2003 Las Vegas Review-Journal

BYLINE: KEN WHITE, REVIEW-JOURNAL

Eighty million years ago, across the badlands of Patagonia in Argentina, female sauropods deposited thousands of their eggs in the soft mud and covered them.

With the right conditions -- no predators, a warming sun, no floods in the mudflats -- those six-inch eggs would hatch and the sauropods inside would grow to become huge, long-necked dinosaurs.

But the floods did come, covering over the nests of...

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