Impeccably preserved dinosaur fetus discovered in China. The discovery of an immaculately preserved dinosaur fetus that was about to hatch from its egg like a regular bird has been announced by researchers in China.
The dinosaur fetus was discovered in Ganzhou, China, according to the BBC, and scientists estimate that it is at least 66 million years old.
It has been named Baby Yingliang and is thought to be a toothless theropod dinosaur or oviraptosaur.
Dr Fion Waisum is a scientist. It was the most flawless dinosaur fetus ever unearthed in history, according to Ma.
The discovery has also helped scientists better understand the relationship between prehistoric behemoths and modern birds. The fetus is depicted in a curved position known as ‘tucking,’ which is a behavior seen in birds shortly before hatching.
This, according to Dr. Ma, indicates that similar behaviors in current birds evolved and began among their prehistoric forefathers.
Oviraptosaurs, which means ‘egg thief lizards,’ were feathered behemoths that lived between 100 million and 66 million years ago in what is now Asia and North America during the Late Cretaceous period.
Dr Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist who participated in the study, remarked on Twitter that it was one of the most magnificent dinosaur fossils he had ever seen and that the fetus was about to hatch.
At the Yingliang Stone Nature History Museum in China, the fetus stretches 10.6 inches from head to tail and is housed in a 6.7-inch-long egg.
The egg was first revealed in 2000 but was then hidden for ten years.
Scientists only paid attention to the egg, which they thought was carrying a fetus when construction work on the museum began and old fossils were being sorted out.
Scientists will use advanced scanning technology to create an image of the dinosaur’s complete skeleton because a piece of its body is still buried in rock.
