Scientists on Tuesday announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. View of the oviraptorosaur embryo "Baby Yingliang", one of the best-preserved dinosaur embryos ever reported. "It is one of the best dinosaur embryos ever found in history," University of …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic skeleton of an oviraptorid dinosaur, which has been nicknamed Baby Yingliang after the name of the Chinese museum which houses …
