Dinosaur eggs found in China. A group of workers at a construction site in southern China's Guangdong province made a truly unexpected discovery earlier this month.
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Dinosaur Eggs Found in China. A group of workers at work on a construction site in southern China's Guangdong province did a truly unexpected discovery last April 19th.
The team of workers was working on building a road in Heyuan City when they found out 43 fossilized dinosaur eggs, among which 19 are completely intact. Thousands of dinosaur egg fragments have been found in and around Heyuan since 1990.
For this reason the locality has earned the nickname of "Dinosaur City in China", Heyuan Museum entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2004 for housing the largest collection of dinosaur eggs in the world. The largest newly found eggs have a diameter of about 13 centimeters.
Du Yanuli, curator of the museum, explained that it is now common to find fossil dinosaur eggs, or at least their fragments, in the areas where they have formed. deposits of red sandstone.
This month's new discovery has a very specific feature: it is the first to take place in the city center, according to South China Morning Post. Now the experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences will deal with analyzing the dinosaur eggs to understand which species they belong to.
The first discovery related to the presence of fossil dinosaur eggs occurred in 1996, along the banks of the city river. It is possible that in the sandstone deposits other dinosaur eggs are found especially around this location in China.
Time road construction work in the city center will have to be stopped to study the area and check for the presence of other dinosaur eggs. The finding of dinosaur eggs seems very common here, so much so that a farmer from Heyuan was arrested by police in 2004 because he kept 557 fossil dinosaur eggs in his home without reporting it to the authorities.
Marta Albè
Photo source: scmp.com
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