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Dino Egg
Linda talks to Don Schiffler, the father of a little boy - who - at age three - found what he claimed was a piece of a dinosaur egg. He was digging with his toy back-hoe at a rest stop while travelling through the desert. Now, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History has confirmed that the fragment - which sat for a while in Tupperware in the family's New Mexico garage - is about 150-million years old. It is now the oldest evidence of meat-eating dinosaurs yet discovered.
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