More than 250 titanosaur eggs have been uncovered in India, revealing more about the lives of some of the largest animals which ever lived.

August 31, 2025 - A 2023 study published in PLOS.one found around 92 nests containing 256 titanosaur eggs across Dhar district’s Lameta Formation, telling about colonial nesting behavior and complex reproductive biology, including multi-shelled and ...

January 19, 2023 - Paleontologists in India have found 92 dinosaur nesting sites and 256 egg fossils. The scientists made the discovery between 2017 and 2020 in the Narmada valley in central India.

June 13, 2022 - The findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, talk about the ‘egg-in-egg’ phenomenon in a titanosaurid dinosaur egg found from the Bagh area of Dhar District in Madhya Pradesh · Dinosaurs of the Sauropod family were among the ...

December 20, 2023 - The residents in a Madhya Pradesh village were worshipping the stone balls they found as "Kuladevata", only to find years later that those were fossilized dinosaur eggs.

January 28, 2023 - Scientists have found 256 fossilised eggs of titanosaur- one of the largest known dinosaurs -- in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, drawing parallels between the egg-laying pattern of extinct species to modern day crocodiles and birds.

January 30, 2024 - The most recent discovery was made in the Lameta Formation of the Dhar district, where a team of palaeontologists from various institutes found 92 closely located dinosaur nests and 256 eggs with each clutch containing between one and twenty eggs, ...

January 27, 2023 - A team of palaeontologists revealed 92 nests, and more than 250 titanosaur eggs were found during digs in northwestern India.

January 19, 2023 - A group of Indian researchers found rare cases of fossilised dinosaur eggs — an egg within an egg — among 256 newly discovered eggs from the Narmada Valley. The

December 31, 2023 - Farmer Vesta Mandloi was recently shocked to discover that a sacred "stone ball" revered by his family for generations is, in reality, the fossilized egg of a massive dinosaur that inhabited central India's Narmada valley millions of years ago.

January 18, 2023 - Paleontologists in India have made a rare discovery — a dinosaur hatchery with 92 nests and 256 eggs that belonged to colonies of giant plant-eating titanosaurs.

After an analysis, they came to the conclusion that these balls were fossilised eggs of the Titanosaurs species of dinosaurs. It is the first Indian dinosaur to be named and properly described.

January 18, 2023 - Peninsular India is well known for dinosaur oological fossils that occur at several sites in the Lameta Formation of central and western India, Deccan intertrappean beds, and shallow marine formations of the Cauvery Basin marking the extensive spread of the Indian dinosaur clutch, egg and eggshell sites [1–15]. From the Lameta Formation, dinosaur clutches, isolated eggs and eggshell fragments have been reported from the Lameta Ghat (type section), Bara Simla Hill, Chui Hill in Jabalpur, Bagh and Kukshi areas of Dhar District and Betul District of Madhya Pradesh (M.P.), Rahioli-Balasinor area of Gujarat, and Nand-Dongargaon Basin in Chandrapur District, Maharashtra.

September 14, 2023 - A fossilized egg, potentially from a dinosaur, has been discovered in the Jethwai-Gajroop Sagar hills in Jaisalmer, India. The egg, resembling a chicken egg, measures about 1 to 1.5 inches long and weighs around 100 grams.

November 16, 2013 - Last week the BBC reported that a team of geologists from Periyar University stumbled upon dozens of fossilized dinosaur eggs in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

January 19, 2023 - [Related: A fossilized egg laid ... dinosaur eggs and skeletons from the Late Cretaceous Period. Scientists first found dinosaur eggs in the region in the 1990s, and this study focuses on on a nesting site in the Dhar ...

New scans reveal how dinosaur teeth developed. ... More than 250 titanosaur eggs have been uncovered in India, revealing more about the lives of some of the largest animals which ever lived.

December 19, 2023 - In a discovery, earlier this year, paleontologists reported a rare finding of closely located dinosaur nests and 256 eggs of the herbivorous Titanosaurs in the Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh.

January 19, 2023 - Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. The 256 fossilized eggs were spread across 92 clutches in the Lamenta Formation that’s tucked in the Narmada Valley of central India.