Troodontid egg clutch (IMAGE)

American Museum of Natural History

Troodontid egg clutch

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Fossil egg clutch found in the Gobi Desert of a troodontid, a type of bird-like theropod dinosaur about the size of an emu. Its eggs were about half the size they would be in a bird of equivalent size. 

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Mick Ellison/ © AMNH

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