October 11 through January 19

This remarkable exhibition offers an array of authentic dinosaur eggs and nests collected from all over the globe and includes eggs of each of the major plant- and meat-eating dinosaur groups.

• Touch real dinosaur bones and reconstructed nests – one more than eight feet in diameter

• Dig for eggs in the dig pit

• Experience hands-on exploration stations

• View animated video presentations featuring well-known dinosaur experts.

• View lifelike models of embryos and hatchlings

The amazing collection of real fossils on view includes a bowling ball-sized egg laid by a long-necked plant-eating titanosaur that lived in Argentina 75 million years ago; a large cluster of eggs laid by a duck-billed dinosaur; and the longest dinosaur eggs ever discovered – almost 18 inches long – laid by a new giant species of oviraptor, a carnivorous, ostrich-like dinosaur.

Meet “Baby Louie”

A central feature of the exhibit is a presentation about the discovery of “Baby Louie,” – the nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur embryo. Charlie Magovern made this rare discovery in 1993 when he was cleaning a large block of eggs from China. He nicknamed the embryo after National Geographic photographer Louie Psihoyos.

Scientists have carefully studied the tiny, delicate skeleton and believe it to be that of a theropod dinosaur, though whether it is a baby therizinosaur or a large species of oviraptor or some other theropod is not known.