Flawlessly preserved 66-million-years-old dinosaur embryo found in China

Dec 22, 2021
Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was pre
Dec 22, 2021
Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken.

The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed “Baby Yingliang.”

“It is one of the best dinosaur embryos ever found in history,” University of Birmingham researcher Fion Waisum Ma, who co-authored a paper in the journal iScience, told the AFP news agency on Tuesday.

Al Jazeera’s Leah Harding reports.

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