Dinosaur Eggs Found In Portugal Linked To Rare Jurassic-Era Torvosaurus Nest

Huge meat-eating dinosaurs that stalked a vast floodplain some 150 million years ago in what is now Portugal left behind traces of their progeny: eggshells.

Some of the eggshells, which belonged to two Jurassic-Era theropods, or a group of carnivorous dinosaurs, once harbored embryos of Torvosaurus, the largest predator of its day.

"It was the equivalent of the T. rex in the Cretaceous," said study co-author Vasco Ribeiro, a paleontologist at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal.

Dinosaur Eggs Found In Portugal Linked To Rare Jurassic-Era Torvosaurus Nest