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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 14, 1993                   TAG: 9307140309
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: DENVER                                LENGTH: Short

INTACT DINOSAUR EGG FOUND IN COLORADO

Scientists have discovered a possible dinosaur nesting area and an intact egg from the Jurassic period 145 million years ago.

What has scientists excited is a dark formation inside one broken egg, which could be the fossilized remains of a yolk or an embryo, said Ken Carpenter, the paleontologist leading the dig for the Denver Museum of Natural History.

"The rock on the outside is green mudstone," he said Tuesday. "Where the eggs are broken, there is a very dark interior. It looks like an organic, dark stain."

Carl Hirsch, a dinosaur expert at the University of Colorado in Boulder and at the Denver museum, said it will take further tests to determine the find's significance. - Associated Press 


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