Faced with a spectacle that made them disbelieve in their eyes came British and Chinese scientists who discovered in southern China a perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo inside a fossilized egg.
The fetus, which was about to emerge from its egg and is about 66 million years old, was christened “Baby Yingliang” and belongs to a species of winged toad. dinosaur without teeth, of the oviraptorosaurus.
Dinosaur embryos are very rare fossils and are usually incomplete. This is the most complete dinosaur embryo ever found on Earth and proves that these dinosaurs took a bird stance during their incubation, similar to that taken by modern bird embryos.
The researchers, who made the relevant publication in the scientific journal “iScience” as broadcast by the Athens News Agency, calculated that the 27 cm long embryo is coiled in a 17 cm long egg, while an adult of its kind probably reached two meters.
Two-limbed viraptorosaurs lived in Asia and North America during the Late Cretaceous, 100 to 66 million years ago and were both herbivores and carnivores.
It is noteworthy that the rare fossil was discovered in 2000, but had been stored for years in a museum and until recently its significance had not been realized.
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