What could be more festive than a big bowl of Mini Eggs at Easter? Brown, white, green, and speckled, they reflect the diversity of egg décor we see in nature, but how far back do pretty eggs go? Were dinosaur eggs colorful? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

A 2017 study revealed that – yes – dinosaur eggs were colorful and we’ve found examples that date back 150 million years . This was quite a pivotal moment for ornithologists as it had been previously assumed that colorful eggs evolved much later in modern birds.

Reptiles like crocodiles lay pure white eggs and the general consensus was that the eggs of early birds would’ve been white, too. Today, they're the only animals known to lay colorful eggs, but were the

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