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Oldest dinosaur embryos unearthed

By T.K. Randall
November 14, 2010 · Comment icon 3 comments

Image Credit: Pavel Riha
The world's oldest known dinosaur embryos have been identified at 190 million years old.
The eggs containing the embryos belonged to a species called Massospondylus and were found in South Africa in 1976, scientists have been using them to figure out what the baby dinosaurs might have looked like.
Palaeontologists have identified the oldest known dinosaur embryos, belonging to a species that lived some 190 million years ago.


Source: BBC News | Comments (3)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by SolarPlexus 14 years ago
Wow this is great. 190 myo embryos!
Comment icon #2 Posted by tipotep 14 years ago
Great stuff - Its good that they were not touched from 1976 to now TIP
Comment icon #3 Posted by JGirl 14 years ago
i wonder how large the eggs are? i have what i believe to be a fossilized egg, from a cavern i explored while in texas. it's about the size of a grapefruit although egg shaped of course. i have no idea if it truly is an egg, or what type of egg it is, but it's obviously super duper old. i wish i could send it somewhere and find out for sure.


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