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Artist Nikas Safronov painted fossilized dinosaur eggs for Easter
Russian artist Nikas Safronov painted five fossilized dinosaur eggs in his original style for Easter. RIA Novosti was informed about this by the artist's son Luka Zatravkin. “The eggs are between 70 and 100 million years old,” he said.
According to Luka, the eggs belong to a herbivorous platypus dinosaur, the hadrosaurus, which moved on its hind legs. The fossils were provided to the artist from a private paleontological collection.
Hadrosaurs are one of the largest vertebrates. It is believed that these dinosaurs reached a height of 12 meters and weighed about three and a half tons. Hadrosaurs lived in shallow waters, their eggs are found in the Cretaceous sediments.
