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65 million-year-old rare dinosaur nest fetches £212,000 in US auction
Sep 7 2008, Sophia

An unusually well-preserved 65 million-year-old dinosaur nest containing fossil eggs was sold in an auction for nearly £212,000. The Cretaceous-era nest was unearthed in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong in 1984 and eventually was sold to a

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