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Dinosaurs repeatedly nested at an ancient seashore in what is now northeastern Spain, leaving the remains of perhaps 300,000 eggs, scientists say.
Egg sites in the area represent the first firm evidence of dinosaurs nesting at a seashore, researchers from Spain and France write in the journal Nature.
The eggs date from the last days of the dinosaurs, the Upper Cretaceous period, which lasted from 73 million to 65 million years ago.
The researchers sampled several areas of sandstone near Lleida and estimated that the entire sandstone deposit contains remains of about 300,000 eggs.
