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‘Rarest of the rare’ dinosaur fossil found brooding on its eggs – Livescience.com
Dinosaur embryos were even preserved in the eggs.
About 70 million years ago, an ostrich-like dinosaur
brooding atop a nest of blue-green eggs met its doom, perishing with its nearly-hatched babies in what is now southern China.
Now, the remains of that beast an oviraptorosaur, or a giant feathered dinosaur that walked on two legs represent the only dinosaur fossil on record to be found sitting on top of eggs that still contain dinosaur embryos, a new study finds.
“Dinosaurs preserved on their nests are rare, and so are fossil embryos,” study…
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