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Oldest Dinosaur Embryo Fossils Discovered in China
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 37168806:MV8yMjAxNzA3XzM3MzAzNTA1Xzc3MDQ1MTU0] oh baby dinos so cute. Not cuddly but cute. Dinosaurs were neat creatures. I heard they are trying to bring back a Raptor. ?? Anyone else read something about this? I read an article a while back about a find in Montana I think it was ; that was a leg bone of a T-Rex with tissue still preserved. Now , how could this be if these creatures lived and died so long ago? Makes one wonder really when some of the last ones died out.... [/quote]
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Palaeontologists working in China have unearthed the earliest collection of fossilized dinosaur embryos to date. The trove includes remains from many individuals at different developmental stages, providing a unique opportunity to investigate the embryonic development of a prehistoric species.
Robert Reisz, a palaeontologist at the University of Toronto in Mississauga, Canada, and his colleagues discovered the sauropodomorph fossils in a bone bed in Lufeng County that dates to the Early Jurassic period, 197 million to 190 million years ago. The site contained eggshells and more than 200 disarticulated bones — the oldest known traces of budding dinosaurs, the researchers report online today in Nature1.
“Most of our record of dinosaur embryos is concentrated in the Late Cretaceous period,” says David Evans, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. “This [study] takes a detailed record of dinosaur embryology and pushes it back over 100 million years.”
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