The blue dinosaur eggs that could change what we know about bird evolution

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It was assumed that early birds and the dinosaurs they evolved from, produced simple white eggs.

But researchers have found that a feathered dinosaur laid blue-green eggs instead.

It's believed that the dinosaur laid colored eggs to help camouflage its eggs in open, dug-out ground nests, as darker eggs are less visible to predators than white ones.

The research suggests that dinosaurs evolved colored eggs before birds evolved, and some species of birds that lay blue eggs, such as emus and robins, inherited this trait from their dinosaur ancestors.