Dino eggs came in different colors

Pigments found in fossil eggshells tell of nesting habits of some oviraptors

dino egg

BLUE HUE  Fossilized eggshells of the dinosaur Heyuannia huangi harbor pigments that would have colored the shells in shades of blue and brown.

Wiemann et al/PeerJ Preprints 2015

Dinosaur eggs had the blues.

Pigments detected in 66-million-year-old eggs from China suggest that the shells came in intense shades of bluish-green, scientists report online May 15 in PeerJ Preprints.