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Dinosaur egg fossils discovered in China


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Fossilised dinosaur eggs from 70 million years ago have been unearthed on a building site in China.

The shells, discovered near Foshan in the southeast of the country, were found at a depth of about 26ft (8m), preserved in red sandstone.

The round-shaped eggs belonged to plant-eating phytophagous dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous period.

http://news.sky.com/story/dinosaur-egg-fossils-dating-from-70-million-years-ago-found-in-china-10845441

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On Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Carnivorfox said:

"plant-eating phytophagous" - that's comically redundant.:D

Your comment is comically pretentious.

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33 minutes ago, Gary Meadows said:

Your comment is comically pretentious.

You don't actually know what phytophagous means, do you?

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The face of the dino in the pic resembles a parrot or turtle. Is that a pic of one of the eggs that were just found?

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1 hour ago, paperdyer said:

The face of the dino in the pic resembles a parrot or turtle. Is that a pic of one of the eggs that were just found?

It doesn't really give the species in the article, it just says they're 'plant eating phytophagous dinosaurs', which as Carnoferox points out that just means 'plant eating plant eating dinosaurs'.  I think the model of the baby in the egg is just put there as a generic sort of picture. 

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2 hours ago, Carnivorfox said:

You don't actually know what phytophagous means, do you?

Yes.

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Phytophagous literally means "plant eating", so saying "plant eating phytophagous" is saying "plant eating plant eating", hence the redundancy.

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Carnivorfox - I think what Gary Meadows is trying to say is that you sound a little pretentious for assuming that everybody must know the Ancient Greek and Latin for

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Its those ruddy English Gentlemen ...

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... there even are places, where ENglish completely disappears  ... :lol:

 

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