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Eggs en Provence: France's Unique Dinosaur Egg Trove
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Eggs en Provence: France's unique dinosaur egg trove
At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalised by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a palaeontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay looking for fossils.
Armed with a handbrush, a paleontologist meticulously inspects a mound of red clay at the foot of the Sainte-Victoire mountain, in the heart of Provence, in search of very special fossils, some 75 million years old: dinosaur eggs.
On the hillside, between twisted pines and dry stones, the Sainte-Victoire mountain hides a paleontological site among the richest in Europe. In the shelter of eyes and protected by the silence of the garrigues, this discreet valley preserves in its entrails the remains of a distant past where dinosaurs, in search of fertile land, came to lay their eggs. On less than one hectare, hundreds of fossilized shells tell a forgotten story, that of a ve…
The find was made in France.
The Sainte-Victoire Nature Reserve in Aix-en-Provence is home to a unique site in the world where nearly 1,000 75 million-year-old dinosaur eggs have been discovered, although all are empty to date.
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