Al Jazeera: Perfectly kept dinosaur embryo from 66 million years ago found

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/22/perfectly-preserved-dinosaur-embryo-from-66m-years-ago-found

>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.

Ma and colleagues found Baby Yingliang’s head lay below its body, with the feet on either side and back curled – a posture that was previously unseen in dinosaurs, but similar to modern birds.<

Wow! Pics and lots more text at the link.

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1. Saw this on TV this morning on a local CBS affiliate. Amazing find.

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2. Are they looking for a surrogate?

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3. LOL!

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4. KNR

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5. Wow!

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6. Oh shit. This is how it starts!

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7. Must have been fossilized after the ELE at the end of the Cretaceous.

That was 66 mya.