DinoFact
Dinosaur Eggs and Babies
Facts about dinosaur eggs, nests, hatchlings and how some dinosaurs cared for their young.
- Dinosaurs hatched from eggs.
- Dinosaur eggs were laid in nests.
- A few dinosaurs may have eaten eggs.
- A baby dinosaur is called a hatchling.
- Some dinosaurs took care of their babies.
- Dinosaur eggs came in many shapes and sizes.
- Some dinosaur eggs were as big as a football.
- Sauropods laid eggs in large nesting colonies.
- Maiasaura looked after its babies in the nest.
- Dryosaurus was a fast, two-legged plant-eater.
- The fastest dinosaurs were slim and long-legged.
- Some dinosaur eggs were round and some were long.
- Baby dinosaurs may have chirped to their parents.
- Tianyuraptor was a long-legged raptor from China.
- Abrictosaurus was a small, two-legged plant-eater.
- A nest of dinosaur eggs could hold a dozen or more.
- Some baby dinosaurs could walk soon after hatching.
- Some dinosaur eggs were bigger than an ostrich egg.
- A baby dinosaur could fit in the palm of your hand.
- Some dinosaurs cared for their young after hatching.
- Lambeosaurus had a hatchet-shaped crest on its head.
- Baby dinosaurs grew up much faster than human babies.
- Some dinosaurs nested close together in big colonies.
- Baby dinosaurs may have been fuzzier than the adults.
- Oviraptor was once wrongly thought to be an egg thief.
- Eggshells from dinosaurs had tiny holes to let air in.
- Conchoraptor was a beaked, egg-shaped-headed dinosaur.
- Oviraptor protected its eggs instead of stealing them.
- Maiasaura cared for its babies in big nesting colonies.
- Some dinosaurs sat on their nests to keep the eggs warm.
- Most baby dinosaurs probably did not survive to grow up.
- A group of dinosaur eggs in one place is called a clutch.
- Some dinosaurs may have nested in colonies like seabirds.
- Some dinosaur eggs were among the biggest eggs ever laid.
- Even the largest dinosaurs hatched from fairly small eggs.
- A young T. rex was leggier and faster than a grown-up one.
- We can tell a baby's tracks from an adult's by their size.
- Did you know some dinosaur eggs were laid in neat circles?
- Dinosaur eggs came in many shapes, from round to elongated.
- Elaphrosaurus was a slim, long-legged dinosaur from Africa.
- Some dinosaurs returned to the same place to nest each year.
- Citipati was an Oviraptor relative found sitting on its nest.
- Dinosaur parents may have fed and protected their hatchlings.
- Some baby dinosaurs hid in the middle of the herd for safety.
- The biggest dinosaur eggs were about the size of a basketball.
- Dinosaur eggs were tough but could still crack like bird eggs.
- Some fossil nests show eggs arranged in neat circular patterns.
- Oviraptor was actually sitting on its own eggs to protect them.
- Dinosaur eggs are sometimes found in rows where they were laid.
- Two-legged dinosaurs held their tails out straight behind them.
- Some dinosaurs covered their eggs with plants to keep them warm.
- Some dinosaur eggs have been found with tiny babies still inside.
- Oviraptor means 'egg thief', even though it guarded its own eggs.
- Footprints can reveal how a baby dinosaur walked beside an adult.
- Dinosaur embryos have been found preserved inside fossilized eggs.
- The smallest known dinosaur eggs were just a few centimetres long.
- Some baby dinosaurs were small enough to sit in a nest like chicks.
- Fossil nests show dinosaurs returned to the same spots to lay eggs.
- The largest known dinosaur eggs were about the size of a basketball.
- Dinosaurs did not have belly buttons because they hatched from eggs.