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Hi, I saw this listing for a supposed real dinosaur egg, and wasn’t sure if it’s real or what species it may be from. It looks real to me but I’m not sure it’s a dinosaur egg. Unfortunately the seller doesn’t have a locality as they said it was passed down to them. Anyways i would appreciate any help with detecting whether it’s real or identifying what it’s from if it is real. Thanks in advance
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This appears to be some sort of animal in an egg shaped nodule. I don't where or when it was collected but I would appreciate any info.
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Potential Egg? Origin unknown, for sale in Ontario, Canada
QueenCoeurl posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Spotted this today at an antique market. Wondering if there is any chance it is real.
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I found a fossil which is definitely an egg. Google gave closest match as Hardosaur. Befoře as I was identifying dinosaur skull stones, I didn't end up with Hardosaur. The best match seemed to be something like Koreasaurus (clear beak-tooth, with with stronger forehead, as also the coprolites seemed to be from vegetarians). Most skulls are deformed, but rather easy to ID as head, alrhough 1 skull came out from a cracked sandstone and is pretty clear (unfortunately from toot to eyes area, not full head). Basically I've seen those like 10000x already as this land is all about fossils - we even have an oil mountain - oil comes out from land without pumping. It's from South coast of Timor Island, 500km from Australia. I'd like to know whose egg is this. Note1: my friend recently found a heel-bone which seem to be also from 5x10m spieces. Bone fossil is like 25x14cm and about 20kg, well preserved. Note2: I also have full-body small dino coprolite (yellow brown very hard stone) at my frontyard. About 80x50cm. With head shape with clear eyes and nose area skin texture and 1 part seems like a claw. Smallest skulls (probably unborn) are about 5cm only. Most common are about 30cm, but also I've seen some bigger than 1m ones that also reminded me skull. Probably 2 spieces. Thanks in advance! Silver
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Found this in the hills near coastal Southern California. From what I can tell, it’s another a croc egg or simply a concretion of some sort. I would appreciate any thoughts on this. Thank you in advance for your help!
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Oviraptor egg, real? or fake?
Riollo posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi all, Well here it is. Oviraptor egg from a 30 year old collection located in the United States. Bought first and read posts on here about fakes later. Smart right? I'll attach pictures but my concerns are 1. It isn't pancaked like most ones I see, 2. Texture changes on the surface could be matrix repairs, 3. On broken areas shell thickness is not consistent. I'll add the best pictures I can. Almost looks like it was painted in the last picture. Thoughts on this would be appreciated. Good or bad lol.
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I have inherited a 3 generation fossil collection from my grandfather. I will start posting pictures based on what I think is the most valuable and interesting. starting with this reptilian looking egg with an iridescent blue reptile shell it's absolutely phenomenal! roughly 3 and a 1/2 by 2 and a 1/2 inches Let me know what you guys think It's so intriguing it seems like it has an energy of its own when you hold it.
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Just a quick digital sketch of a freshly hatched oviraptorid that I made today. Had to finish it on my last day of my current job, amongst many other things, so it is what it is. I have some spare time before my next job, so I am hoping to do some more serious paleoart in the next weeks!
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I see a vertical pupil raptor eye and embryo in the egg shaped, smooth rock. I was looking for geodes, I found this tiny geode, broke it open at home, and the other half broke into pieces - 3 or 4 crumbly. I did this 17 years ago. Now, I have joined a lapidary group, ALMS Alabama, and been to a meeting, and I have had this on my shelf for 17 years. I was thinking it is an ugly geode nodule? But then, yesterday I thought, it looks like an egg, it's insides are multicolored like a fossilized egg? I then go my magnifying glass and I can see an eye, and 3 part skull with divisions lines, and the raptor evil eye. I can see a jawbone and mandible seperation, skull sutures seperation, eye, and back bone has these protrusions, humps that have 3 dots on them, like a stegasaurus? But very small, see image. Dime coin is in image. It has a dimple perfect on the outside end of the egg and smooth uniform surface. Also, appears to be a snout and mouth and body, tail, and possibly wing bones, similar to a velociraptor? Can you tell me if it is a dinosaur embryo, fossilized? My book does not show, and these are very rare, China holds the record for smallest embryo. Some dinosaur eggs fossils are as small as 0.7 inches. Tis is bigger than that. Thanks. I have more images. Stop the GIF by tapping on it? It also has the ear hole of hole behind the jawbone mandible.
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Pretty sure I have an egg. Found in Milstadt, IL. (Right across the Miss. River from St. Louis)
JLN1129 posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hey y'all. I dont have the faintest idea what I have here. Im fairly certain its an egg. And Im fairly certain it's a fossil. Im also fairly certain my friend shouldnt have cut it in half. But if he didn't, I wouldn't be fairly certain its an egg, so..c'est al vie. Any insight, thoughts, questions, or direction would be greatly appreciated, as my recent googling of the phrase 'red fossil egg in missouri' turned up nothing related.
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Real Fossil Hadrosaur Egg
AJS92444 posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello! A local rock shop has a fossil hadrosaur egg for sale that I’m very interested in. I know eggs are some of the most faked fossils out there, so before I spend money [price redacted] I’d like to get some input from experienced collectors whether or not they believe it’s a fake or the real deal. Thank you to all who respond!
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Found on the beach in village of Niendorf on Lübeck Bay, SW Baltic Sea. The specimen is heavy. Is it an egg fossil, and if so, of what creature in what period? How did the quartz pieces come to be embedded? Thanks to anyone who can help!
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Southern Utah - Grand Staircase between the Vermillion and Chocolate cliffs section. The geological period for this location is Upper Triassic. I was out exploring the cliff of a butte (more like a half-butte since one side was cliff and the other gently slopes north into alluvial sand) and came across what seemed like a very flat ancient creek bed, now just a small desert wash. It was strewn with quite large river rocks that did not belong, and were not found outside this sand creek. It was very cool, as this "river" was essentially at the top of the cliff and gently flowing away from the edge, so even heavy desert monsoons couldn't produce enough run off water flow to smooth these rocks since the cliff formed. Whatever mountain these rocks came from is long gone. I came across this egg-shaped rock. (8-12inches, 20-30cm long) , and the surface markings were really unusual. I took the photo below, but was being dragged along by my partner who couldn't care less about rocks, so I didn't get forensic photos. I assumed in the moment it was just a very egg-looking river rock, even though it was a different type than the others. The cliff area was otherwise entirely the typical sedimentary rock you'd expect. But after a year looking at the photo, and looking at actual dino eggs, it didn't seem like a totally crazy thought. Petrified wood is known to be in the area also, but I wasn't aware of that at the time. I attached a photo of the other rocks in the sand creek to set the scene a bit. Some of these rocks looked like they really needed to be broken in half to see what might be inside, but I didn't have my rock hammer as I thought I was just going to see normal sandstone. Thanks for any thoughts...
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This is for sale on a local auction site.... I get a bit of an off feeling about it and feel like it's some sort of fake (it looks plastic) but it's definitely worth asking the question from those that know about dinosaur eggs. The auction title says it is a million year old Therizinosaur egg fossil - yep, seriously. There is zero provenance, so how the seller knows what family of dinosaurs it belongs to surprises me. Based on the title, the seller knows nothing about it either. Seller admits it was a garage sale find, in the listing there is a page worth of info about dinosaurs but nothing specific about this "egg".
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Is this a real dinosaur egg?
Kyleontheweb posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hello, I apologize in advance as I'm sure questions like this come up a lot. I'm thinking about purchasing this dinosaur egg which I believe is from a fairly reputable seller. I've always wanted a real dinosaur egg for my collection, but I just wanted to get some opinions on whether you think this one is real or a fake? Thank you very much for any assistance!
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I found this rock and smashed it open while taking a walk at Lake Ontario. What I found inside seems rather interest. It is sort of egg shaped but what got my attention is 3 near parallel lines in the possible pattern of a bird or reptile foot, maybe too. Possibly branching lines like blood vessels or roots? It's not very big, maybe a couple inches in length at most and a good part of it is still embedded in the rock. I don't know if there may be more embedded in the rock. I couldn't identify the other fragments that came off the rock after I broke it open unfortunately. I'd love to hear some opinions.
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Found this interesting rock and it has me scratching my head but it sure looks like some sort of egg or maybe the pit of a large fruit but then again it could be a concretion but I have my doubts about that. Hope these pictures have the clarity needed for good judgement.
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We found a few dinosaur eggs located in Utah. Not quite sure on exactly what they were laid by or even if they are fossilized eggs.
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I’m looking to get some info on this. Which I found in central Ohio.
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Are these real? Hadrosaur and Oviraptor Eggs
DesertJerboa posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Hi, Newbie here. Wondering if these items are real. The pair are billed as oviraptor eggs. The other is billed as a hadrosaur egg. Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts! Best, Z!.thumb.jpg.7554b3e340354392b967c53eff479b0d.jpg)
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Found this in the Olcmulgee River shed after lots of rain from up North so I'm in Middle Georgia it's possible it could have come down from further north. Background in last picture is a standard index card for true size comparison
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Dinosaur Eggs with Embryos
Crazyhen posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Please take a look of the two eggs with well developed embryos from Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province of China. I was told that the embryos were revealed only because the eggs were broken with bones exposed. These are amazing fossils if they are genuine. Do they look like genuine bones or fabricated ones?
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Dinosaur egg and skeleton
Crazyhen posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
An incomplete skeleton was found alongside with a raptor egg. Does it look like the skeleton is genuine? Would it be the skeleton of an elder hatchling of the same brood? This specimen is from Ganzhou of Jiangxi Province, China.
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Hi any suggestions on this one.
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