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This exceptionally preserved Protoceratops specimen includes six embryos that preserve nearly complete skeletons. M. Ellison/©AMNH Previously discovered dinosaur eggs were all hard-shelled. But fossilized eggs from two dino species in the Gobi Desert had soft shells, a June study revealed. "I've been excavating in Mongolia for 20 years now, and we find a lot of dinosaur eggs. But these clutches tell us something very different from what we knew before," Mark Norell, the lead author of the study and a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, previously told Business Insider. ...