- Dinosaur Egg Detectives
Cracking the Case
- Part 2 - The French Connection
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The first written account about prehistoric eggs appeared
in France in 1859. A French priest and amateur geologist, Father
John Jacques Pouech wrote that he discovered eggshell at the
foothills of the Pyrenees in Southern France. It wasn't until
1930, that a farmer plowing his fields found the first complete
French dinosaur eggs.
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- Dr. Philip Currie examining
- eggs in the French quarry
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- authentic French egg
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The first North American egg was found in northern Montana
in 1913. However, it was misidentified as a freshwater clam until
many years later when Dr. Jack Horner found it in a drawer in
the Smithsonian Institute of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
and identified it as a dinosaur egg. In 1978, with the help of
local rock shop owners Marion and John Brandvold, Dr. Horner
and his good friend, Biology Teacher, the late Bob Makela discovered
the famous "Egg Mountain" nesting site in the Two Medicine
Formation in northern Montana, a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs
and baby bones. With this discovery, he paved the way for this
new area of Paleontology.
Since this time, over two hundred dinosaur egg sites have
been found all over the world. Individuals who are not degreed
Paleontologists have made many of these discoveries. Father John
Jacques Pouech, George Olson and the Brandvold's paved the way
for many more who followed them. However, only with the help
of experienced Paleontologists, is the true scientific importance
of these discoveries realized.
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