December 24, 2023 - An incredibly rare, fully articulated dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg that had been collecting dust for over a decade in the storage room of a museum in China.

A 72 to 66-million-year-old embryo found inside a fossilised dinosaur egg sheds new light on the link between the behaviour of modern birds and dinosaurs, according to a new study.

As far as we know, all dinosaurs ... of dinosaur laid the eggs that have been discovered, because only a few dinosaur embryos have been found inside the fossil eggs....

December 23, 2022 - ... They don't actually have any soft tissue though it's just that the flesh also fossilized More replies More replies More replies ... It's a fossil. A rock. Not an in tact egg with a viable embryo.

December 22, 2021 - The embryo, now known as ‘Baby Yingliang’, is about 27 centimetres in length from its head to its tail, and is lying inside a 17-cm-long egg. By studying Baby Yingliang, and other less complete embryos of other theropods, long-necked sauropod ...

December 26, 2021 - This posture had not been recognized ... fossilized dinosaur eggs having been found during the last 100 years, a well-preserved embryo is extremely rare, the researchers said in their study....

December 23, 2021 - The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic skeleton of an oviraptorid dinosaur, which has been nicknamed Baby Yingliang after the name of the Chinese museum which houses the fossil.

September 22, 2025 - The egg measures about 6.6 inches long and 3.0 inches wide, and the preserved skeleton inside stretches roughly 9.3 inches. The animal is an Oviraptorosaur, a feathered member of the dinosaur family that often had beaks and sometimes crests. Within the broader group of theropod dinosaurs, which also includes the ancestors of modern birds, oviraptorosaurs lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous. Articulated embryos in eggs are rare, since delicate bones usually shift or break after burial.

September 6, 2024 - Dinosaur egg found with intact embryo! ... A dinosaur embryo has been found inside a fossilized egg.

2 weeks ago - Kimberley ChapelleThis unprecedented ... before. Scientists used a stadium-sized particle accelerator to scan 200-million-year-old dinosaur fossils — and then created 3D reconstructions of the skulls of baby dinosaur embryos...

Answer (1 of 7): it is a complete unhatched pre-hatching state non avian dinosaur egg and hatchling, thus another potential view into this level of development of these dinos.. apparently it is in a typical avian tuck position, essential for birds to hatch from,, which is initiated by central ner...

January 25, 2025 - A incredibly well-preserved fossilised ... links between modern birds and dinosaurs. The 72 to 66-million-year-old oviraptorosaur embryo was found in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, in southern ......

December 21, 2021 - The stone mining company Yingliang ... report this week in the journal iScience, nestled under the fossil egg's dimpled surface is one of the most complete dinosaur embryos ever found....

3 weeks ago - The validity of this issue has ... The only truly reliable way to discover a dinosaur embryo is to cut the egg open or dissolve some of its eggshell away....

March 12, 2021 - Xing Xu of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "This is the first time a non-avian dinosaur has been found, sitting on a nest of eggs that preserve embryos, in a single spectacular specimen."