At the Site

When we first discovered Auca Mahuevo, most of the fossils we found were fragments of shell on the surface. We had to dig down a few feet to reveal clutches of near perfect eggs. The eggs measured five to six inches across- about the same size as a modern ostrich egg-and weighed a couple of pounds when first laid.

After a brief survey of the site it appeared this was a nesting field that spanned for miles and contained thousands of eggs.