Hadrosaur Mud Mound Nest with Dinosaur Eggs

A wide, low mud mound with a shallow bowl in the middle, holding a tight cluster of rounded, textured eggs. The rough surface of the mound gives it the look of sun-dried earth. Duck-billed dinosaurs such as Maiasaura nested in colonies, scraping mounds of earth with a central hollow for their eggs. Nesting grounds at Egg Mountain in Montana, first described in 1979, showed that young hadrosaurs stayed in the nest after hatching, which is why Maiasaura means good mother lizard. Use it as a dinos…

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