Did dinosaurs lay colorful eggs?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Dinosaurs were reptiles, which means they laid eggs! But what did these eggs look like? Were they big? Small? Speckly? Colorful? We asked paleontologist Kallie Moore to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the Moment of Um.
0:09.8	Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. I'm Earl of Earl's Egg Excellent Egg Emporium.
0:29.6	Here at my Egg Emporium, we sell the finest egg specimens of all shapes and sizes. Huge, creamy white ostrich eggs.
0:32.6	Hello, my beauties.
0:34.6	Little speckly quail eggs, the size of a gumball.
0:39.3	And, of course, leathery alligator eggs.
0:43.3	These gator babies are just about to hatch.
0:48.3	It's truly the most...
0:50.3	Oh, it's starting!
0:52.3	Shh! See their tiny alligator heads? Oh, it's starting. Shh.
0:59.0	See their tiny alligator heads poking out?
1:02.9	Taking their first look at the world.
1:08.1	They look like little dinosaurs.
1:14.0	I wish I could get some real dinosaur eggs here at my excellent egg emporium. I wonder what dinosaur eggs look like anyway. Were they soft and
1:23.8	leathery like alligator eggs? Spotted? Colorful?
1:29.3	My friends and fellow egg fans, Robin and Fen, had a question about this too.
1:38.3	We think that the dinosaurs' eggs that we have that we know of were all hardshed, like bird eggs.
1:47.7	My name is Callie Moore.
1:49.4	I manage the fossil collection at the University of Montana in Missoula.
1:54.4	I also am a coast and content consultant for PBS Eons.
2:00.1	And I'm an executive producer on the documentary Why Dinosaurs.
2:05.2	Probably since about 2017,
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