Construction workers in China have unearthed several dinosaur eggs believed to be 130 million-years-old.
Fossils of more than 20 dinosaur eggs were discovered at a middle school construction site in Dayu County in the southeast Chinese province of Jiangxi on December 25.
The construction team found the oval-shaped stones while preparing to break up boulders after blasting work, China News Service reports.
According to experts from the local conservation museum, the fossils belong to the same batch of eggs and the two-millimetre-thick black fragments are shells.
Dating back to the Cretaceous period (145-66 million years ago), experts estimate that these eggs are 130 million years old. They add that Dayu County was once moors and lakes which were fit for reptiles like dinosaurs to live and breed.
Researches show that as of 2016, more than 20 distinctive kinds of dinosaur eggs have been unearthed in Jiangxi. It means that the province was once home to at least 20 dinosaur species in the late Cretaceous period.
Construction was halted while scientists recovered the eggs to test their veracity.
Science expert and author Helen Pilcher claimed species can be brought back from extinction.
In her book “Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction”, Pilcher wrote: “What if, many millions of years ago, there had been a hungry mosquito that dined on a dinosaur then became trapped in amber, with its last supper still inside its stomach.
“If one could recover a dinosaur blood cell from inside that mosquito and then transplant it into an egg that had had its own DNA removed [it is possible to] grow a dinosaur.
“A modern living dinosaur is not a fantasy.”
Fossils of more than 20 dinosaur eggs were discovered at a middle school construction site in Dayu County in the southeast Chinese province of Jiangxi on December 25.
The construction team found the oval-shaped stones while preparing to break up boulders after blasting work, China News Service reports.
According to experts from the local conservation museum, the fossils belong to the same batch of eggs and the two-millimetre-thick black fragments are shells.
Dating back to the Cretaceous period (145-66 million years ago), experts estimate that these eggs are 130 million years old. They add that Dayu County was once moors and lakes which were fit for reptiles like dinosaurs to live and breed.
Researches show that as of 2016, more than 20 distinctive kinds of dinosaur eggs have been unearthed in Jiangxi. It means that the province was once home to at least 20 dinosaur species in the late Cretaceous period.
Construction was halted while scientists recovered the eggs to test their veracity.
Science expert and author Helen Pilcher claimed species can be brought back from extinction.
In her book “Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction”, Pilcher wrote: “What if, many millions of years ago, there had been a hungry mosquito that dined on a dinosaur then became trapped in amber, with its last supper still inside its stomach.
“If one could recover a dinosaur blood cell from inside that mosquito and then transplant it into an egg that had had its own DNA removed [it is possible to] grow a dinosaur.
“A modern living dinosaur is not a fantasy.”
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Source: The Sun, GBTimes, China News
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