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BBC
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Perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo found in China
It is believed to be a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, and has been named Baby Yingliang. Researcher Dr Fion Waisum Ma said it is "the best dinosaur embryo ever found in history".
Published   December 21, 2021
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Times of India
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Real life Jurassic Park: Perfectly preserved 70-million-year-old bird-like dinosaur egg found - The Times of India
October 28, 2025 - Argentine paleontologists found a 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg in Río Negro. This rare find is believed to belong to a small carnivorous theropod dinosaur. The egg's pristine condition offers a unique chance to study dinosaur evolution ...
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72 million year old dinosaur egg found in China with intact embryo inside
I believe this specimen has been studied and published few years ago, I was lucky enough to see the actual fossil in Fujian, China this May. More on reddit.com
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Dinosaur egg found with intact embryo!
Why did my dumbass think that the CG image was the real thing? Like "Oh yeah they totally found a fully preserved Dinosaur egg with a fully intact embryo that's been around for 70 million years". I need to go the hell to bed. More on reddit.com
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I don’t know much about dinosaurs but this is fake news right?
Dino eggs with Embryos happen sometimes. That being said, it's usually a skeleton like every other dinosaur fossil, just in an egg More on reddit.com
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The 72-million-year-old dinosaur embryo discovered in an egg fossil.
Wow they really were just like us. Born in eggs and fossilized by countless eons underground. More on reddit.com
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Earth.com
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Enormous 68-million-year-old egg nicknamed 'The Thing' is excavated in Antarctica
1 day ago - 68-million-year-old soft-shelled fossil egg found in Antarctica hints marine reptiles laid eggs, reshaping ancient life views.
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Reddit
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r/Paleontology on Reddit: 72 million year old dinosaur egg found in China with intact embryo inside
September 6, 2024 - I found this really old dinosaur book from my childhood and now i'm curious...do any of these dinosaur depictions hold up to our modern understanding or do they suffer from outdated information? (Especially the Tsintasaurus, i REALLY want to know if it actually had THAT on it's head) ... Dinosaur egg found with intact embryo!
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Phys.org
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Smallest dinosaur egg ever found confirmed in China
October 21, 2024 - The eggs were found at a construction site near the city of Ganzhou in 2021 in southeast China—the region is known to paleontologists as one of the best in the world for finding dinosaur eggs.
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EcoNoticias
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Could it be born now? 70 million year old dinosaur embryo found
February 24, 2025 - The 70-million-year egg with a marvellous, well-preserved embryo inside provides unprecedented glimpses into the embryonic stages of the dinosaur. However, while the intact state of the embryo is a miracle to behold, according to science, by ...
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Reddit
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r/interestingasfuck on Reddit: Dinosaur egg found with intact embryo!
December 22, 2022 - Why did my dumbass think that the CG image was the real thing? Like "Oh yeah they totally found a fully preserved Dinosaur egg with a fully intact embryo that's been around for 70 million years".
Find elsewhere
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Live Science
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80 million-year-old dinosaur 'mini eggs' unearthed at Chinese construction site are the smallest ever found — and belong to a never-before-seen T. rex relative | Live Science
October 22, 2024 - Half a dozen dinosaur eggs, each around the size of a grape, were recently saved from a construction site in China. Researchers say the tiny fossilized shells are exceptionally well preserved.
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News18
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70-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Embryo Found In Missouri, Scientists Wonder Why It Never Hatched | Viral News - News18
February 20, 2025 - They also wonder if other dinosaurs showed bird-like behaviours before hatching. In 2021, an international team of scientists also found a preserved dinosaur embryo inside a fossilised egg.
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American Museum of Natural History
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Dinosaur Eggs | American Museum of Natural History
One remarkable find was in Montana, where fossils of duckbill dinosaurs, including eggs, nests, hatchlings, juveniles, and adults were found together in one death assemblage, or mass grave.
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SciTechDaily
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“Baby Yingliang” – Exquisitely Preserved Dinosaur Embryo Discovered Inside Oviraptorosaur Egg
September 19, 2025 - Animated life reconstruction of a close-to-hatching oviraptorosaur dinosaur embryo, based on the new specimen “Baby Yingliang.” Credit: Lida Xing · It had been acquired in 2000 by Liang Liu, director of a company called Yingliang Group, ...
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ScienceDaily
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Exquisitely preserved embryo found inside fossilized dinosaur egg | ScienceDaily
September 11, 2025 - 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.
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Snexplores
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Dinosaurs are still alive. Today, we call them birds
April 7, 2025 - These remains add evidence that birds inherited these behaviors from dinosaurs. In the past, such behaviors weren’t viewed as birdlike. In 1923, paleontologists found another Mongolian dinosaur lying directly over a nest containing eggs.
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Quora
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Can fossilized dinosaur eggs be hatched and raised as pets? - Quora
Answer (1 of 4): No, you clearly don’t know what a fossil is. It is rock that used to be an egg. Fossilization replaces the organic materials with minerals. It is rock that perfectly replaced all that organic material and so took on the same structure. Rocks do not hatch.
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Wikipedia
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Dinosaur egg - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - Usually the first evidence of fossil dinosaur eggs to be discovered are shell fragments that have eroded away from the original eggs and been transported downhill by the elements. If the source eggs can be found the area must be examined for more unexposed eggs.
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TikTok
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New Dinosaur Egg Found
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CNN
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Perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo discovered inside its egg in China | CNN
December 23, 2021 - “Up until now, little has been known of what was going on inside a dinosaur’s egg prior to hatching, as there are so few embryonic skeletons, particularly those that are complete and preserved in a life pose,” she said in an email.