Dino dig uncovers mother ready to lay her eggs.

DINOSAUR eggs; FOSSIL eggs; FOSSIL reptiles; FOOD of animal origin; REPTILES

This article reports on the discovery of first complete eggs found inside fossilised dinosaur. The new find, in China's Jiangxi province, shows dinosaurs laid their eggs in a series of sittings, like modern birds, rather than all at once like crocodiles and other reptiles. The fossil is a pelvis and part of a leg of a female oviraptor that lived between 100 and 65 million years ago. Oviraptors were two-legged dinosaurs, part of the theropods, a large group that includes tyrannosaurs and the ancestors of birds. Without other fossils, it is unclear whether bird-like egg laying was common to other dinosaur groups.