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The first colored eggs appeared long before Easter
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The tradition of coloring eggs to celebrate Easter can be traced to the 13th-century Britain , and perhaps even earlier, to early Christian Europe and Mesopotamia .
Researchers have recently determined that they likely appeared about 150 million years ago .
In 1923 , fossil hunter Roy Chapman Andrews first found dinosaur eggs in intact nests in Mongolia .
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