One of those is a cast of a nest of oviraptor eggs, each the size of an eggplant.

NEWYORKER: In the Air

Chait, and contained the bones of another dinosaur: a Mongolian oviraptor.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

In the fall of 2011, he sold two Mongolian oviraptor nests for more than three hundred and fifty dollars each, a tyrannosaurus ileum for five hundred and sixty-one dollars, a tyrannosaurus tooth for three hundred and twenty-five dollars, and a tyrannosaurus tail vertebra for four hundred and ten dollars.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention