The specimen was renamed “Baby Yingliang”
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A rare dinosaur embryo perfectly preserved in the egg and fossilized in a position that until now was thought to be typical only of birds about to be born: the specimen, renamed “Baby Yingliang”, is an oviraptosaurus (a theropod ‘relative’ of birds) lived about 70 million years ago. The embryo measures approximately 27cm in length from head to tail and lies inside a 17cm long egg at the Yingliang Stone Museum of Natural History. His identikit is published in the iScience magazine by an international team led by the University of Birmingham and the Chinese University of Geosciences in Beijing. «Most of the dinosaur embryos are incomplete with the disjointed skeletons: we were very surprised to see this embryo perfectly preserved in its egg, in a posture similar to that of birds; it’s something that has never before been seen in non-avian dinosaurs, ”comments Waisum Ma of the University of Birmingham. The fossil, recovered in Jiangxi province, was acquired in 2000 by the director of a company called the Yingliang Group, but then ended up in a warehouse where it was recovered only a decade ago by the staff of the Yingliang Stone Nature History Museum in Xiamen. , where it is still preserved today. In the video: an animated reconstruction of the life of an oviraptosaurus dinosaur embryo close to hatching, based on the new specimen «Baby Yingliang».
December 22, 2021 – Updated December 22, 2021, 6:57 pm
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