A dwarf dinosaur egg nest, 65 million years old, was recently exhibited at the Dinosaur Geopark information center in Hateg, in central Romania. This is the first item in the exhibition, which is put together by the local authorities together with the University in Bucharest.

The Hunedoara county council recently decided to create, together with the University in Bucharest, an open air dinosaur park in the region called Tara Hategului. The open-air museum will have 20 dinosaur mockups at real size, on some four hectares of land. The project will be created close to the village General Berthelot, close to where the dwarf dinosaur eggs were discovered.

The whole Dinosaur Geopark covers over 100,000 hectares and was created in 2000.

Three dwarf dinosaur eggs stolen from Romania and smuggled to Italy were recovered and brought back to Romania in 2011. The three eggs were stolen around 2004-2005 from the archaeological site in Tustea- Hateg, Hunedoara county, in the center of Romania. They were sold to an Italian collector who kept them in a warehouse together with other 11,000 artifacts. The Italian Police found them during a search.

Dwarf dinosaurs lived on Romania's current territory some 70 million years ago, during the Mesozoic era, in the Cretaceous period. These dinosaurs, unique in the world, were about the same size as nowadays' horses, according to scientists.

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 (photo source: National Georgaphic-  Photograph by Sinclair Stammers/Science Photo Library)