66-million years ago, bird-like dinosaurs laid blue-green eggs

[rangerrebew]

 
66-million years ago, bird-like dinosaurs laid blue-green eggs

Published September 08, 2017
 

A type of bird-like dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Cretaceous period — about 145.5 million to 65.5 million years ago — laid eggs that had a bluish-green tint, the first evidence of pigment in dinosaur eggs, according to a new study.

The well-preserved eggshells belonged to the oviraptorid Heyuannia huangi, and analysis revealed the hints of blue-green color, the researchers said. Oviraptorids were a small-bodied, short-snouted group of dinosaurs with toothless beaks, and are known from fossils found in Mongolia and China.

 

http://www.livescience.com/60291-blue-green-cretaceous-dinosaur-eggs.html

[dfwgator]

I don't like blue-green eggs and ham, Sam-I-Am.

[Sanguine]

Like araucana eggs.

[berdie]

Like araucana eggs.

That was the first thing that came to my mind @Sanguine .

My FIL raised chickens many years ago that laid blue eggs (they were also corn fed and the eggs were the best I've ever eaten.) My very young, at the time, nieces wouldn't eat anything but blue eggs. My FIL has long ago passed, so I can't ask if that was the breed.