Eggs Older than History
After cutting his hand on the top of a high cliff, an explorer found a line of egg-shells springing like crocuses out of the ground. These proved to be parts of shells laid by a dinosaur —a prehistoric creature that lived probably ten million years ago. Many these eggs, supposed to be the oldest in the world, have been recovered from the sands of Mongolia. Bits of them were formerly made by primitive people into ornaments for ! women ’» necks.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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83Eggs Older than History Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)
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