Colgate students are doing research to determine how eggs become fossilized. Field and lab experiments enable fracture patterns and other features in Colgate's Oviraptor egg (center) to be compared with buried specimens of modern eggs. Personal photographs of egg types used in student research. Clockwise from upper left: ostrich, emu, chicken, and alligator eggs. Scale bar = 3 cm. Colgate students investigating our dinosaur egg determined on the basis of x-rays and CAT scans that it contains no embryo. Since Andrews' discoveries in the Gobi, dinosaur eggs have been found on every continent, except Antarctica, but scientists still know very little about what it takes to fossilize an egg. If awarded, a grant from NSF (National Science Foundation) would provide funds for a comprehensive study -- with Colgate students, high school student collaborators and their teachers -- of Colgate's dinosaur egg and what it reveals about how eggs become preserved as fossils.