Scientists Find 66 Million Year Old Dinosaur Embryo
A perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg in China that was almost forgotten for 10 years at a storage facility in China. Scientists said that finding a dinosaur embryo is one of the rarest discoveries.
Scientists have found a fossil of a dinosaur egg in the rocks of the ‘Hekou Formation’ in the Shahe Industrial Park in Ganzhou City of Jiangxi Province, southern China, inside which an extremely well-preserved dinosaur embryo has been detected and has been called ‘this embryo’. Named ‘Baby Yingliang’.
Scientists believe that this egg is 66-72 million (70 million) years old. It is one of the best-preserved dinosaur embryos ever discovered in science, co-lead researcher Phion Waisam Ma from the University of Birmingham told Live Science. Paleontologists from the University of Birmingham have reported that this embryo is related to dinosaurs from the oviraptorosaur species, which did not have teeth and had a beak. Oviraptorosaurs were feathered dinosaurs found in the rocks of Asia and North America.
Dinosaur was very close to hatching
Ma and his colleagues found that baby Yingliang’s head was under its body, with legs and back folded on either side—a posture not previously seen in dinosaurs, but found in modern birds. In modern birds this posture is seen during ‘tucking’. Tucking is a process that is vital to a successful hatching. The 70-million-year-old baby dinosaur Yingliang has shed new light on the link between modern birds and their ancient ancestors.
Baby Yingliang was almost ready to incubate the eggs before being buried and turned into stone that was discovered in 2000 by the Chinese mining company Yingliang Group. This is the first time a dinosaur related to modern birds has been placed inside an egg in an embryonic position with its head between its toes, similar to today’s unhatched chickens.
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