Trending Fossilised dinosaur: embryo found best preserved inside egg

A 72-million-year-old dinosaur embryo has been discovered inside one of the best-preserved fossilised eggs ever discovered, according to scientists.

Dinosaur eggs are relatively abundant but out of those dinosaur eggs very few contain embryos and out of those embryos most of them are fragmentary with the bones scattered around.

But this one is extremely rare and it is extremely well preserved that we can see its posture. 

This embryo was hidden in the storage in Yinglang museum for about 15 years.

So, it is not until 2015 the creator of the museum sorted through the boxes and he uncovered these fossils again.

Where was this embryo actually discovered?

This embryo belongs to a group of therapeutic dinosaurs called oviraptors. And it was discovered in Ganzhou city of southern China.

And Ganzhou city is a hot spot of oviraptorosaurs.

Because in the past two decades, Scientists have about seven new species of era process in Ganzhou city alone. So that's why this is a hospital not only for dinosaur skeletons but also dinosaur eggs.

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Why This Embryo Is Unique?

So, the culture of this embryo is unique among dinosaurs but it is very similar to what we see in a close-to-hatching modern embryo. 

For example:

If we use chicken for comparison this embryo voice posture is very similar to the posture of a 17-day chicken embryo.

And in chickens starting from day 17, they will start to have some coordinated movement and on day 20, they will have achieved the final tucking posture.

And that is a posture where the body is curled with its head under its right-wing and this tucking behavior is suggested to help the chicken to hatch successfully by directing and stabilizing its head. 

Because of their similarities in posture between this dinosaur embryo and modern-day bird.

Scientists suspect that this might implicate a similar pre-hatching behavior between these two groups of animals.

And Scientists now accept that birds are dinosaurs and to be more specific they evolved from a group of dinosaurs called theropod dinosaurs.