Mysterious 'deflated football' fossil found in Antarctica is massive reptile egg
dailystar.co.ukdinosaurs. The fossilised egg - measuring 8 by 11 inches (29 by 20 cm) - is only slightly smaller than eggs of Madagascar's giant flightless elephant birds that went extinct only in the past several centuries, scientists said on Wednesday.While birds, crocodilians and many dinosaurs laid hard-shelled eggs, the Antarctic egg had a soft, parchment-like shell."This new egg is the very first fossil egg from Antarctica, and the largest soft-shelled egg ever discovered," said University of Texas palaeontologist Lucas Legendre, lead author of the research published in the journal Nature."It looks a bit like a deflated football: elongated, collapsed, with many creases and folds on its surface.One side is flattened, suggesting this is where it came.
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