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A jaw-dropping fossil has been found of an oviraptor crouching upon two dozen eggs containing fossilized embryos inside—with 7 containing “babies” mere hours from hatching.
By Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, for study published in Science Bulletin 2020 – White indicates preserved bones
Found in Ganzhou in South China, the fossil is unprecedented in history, and not only contains an image of the animal and its offspring, but of its very behavior.
China has produced some of the world’s most important discoveries in the field of paleontology, and this oviraptorosaur, from a group of bird-like theropod dinosaurs that thrived in the Cretaceous Period, turned out to be an absolute diamond.
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Paleontologists Uncover Rarer-than-Rare Fossil of Raptor on Nest of Eggs With 24 Embryos Inside
By Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, for study published in Science Bulletin 2020 – White indicates preserved bones
Found in Ganzhou in South China, the fossil is unprecedented in history, and not only contains an image of the animal and its offspring, but of its very behavior.
China has produced some of the world’s most important discoveries in the field of paleontology, and this oviraptorosaur, from a group of bird-like theropod dinosaurs that thrived in the Cretaceous Period, turned out to be an absolute diamond.
Continued below.
Paleontologists Uncover Rarer-than-Rare Fossil of Raptor on Nest of Eggs With 24 Embryos Inside
