Old eggs 古老的蛋

Have you ever seen a dinosaur? What about a dinosaur egg? This picture shows the fossils of dinosaur eggs.

All the dinosaurs died a long time ago, before there were people on the earth. Today, all we can see of dinosaurs are their fossils. Fossils can be many different things. A fossil can be the shape that's left in a rock of something that died a long time ago, like a leaf or a bug. It can also be the bones of an animal, or something that the animal left behind, like its eggs.

Fossils are very special because they can only be made when the circumstances are just right. Fossils are also full of information. They can tell us many things about the way the world was millions of years ago. (Kayleen Hartman, staff writer)

你看過恐龍嗎？那恐龍蛋呢？照片中的就是恐龍蛋化石喔。

很久以前，所有的恐龍在人類尚未出現之前就滅亡了，如今我們只能看到恐龍的化石。化石有多種樣貌，可以是死亡已久的生物，留在岩石裡的外型，例如葉子或小蟲，也可以是動物的骨骸，或動物遺留的東西，像是蛋。

化石非常特別，要天時地利都配合才會形成化石。

化石也能傳達很多資訊，告訴我們好幾百萬年前地球的面貌。 （翻譯：鄭湘儀）