BUENOS AIRES: Archaeologists in Argentina have discovered a 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg in remarkable condition — the first of its kind in such perfect preservation.
The rare fossil was unearthed during an excavation in the Rio Negro province. According to the Science Magazine report, Gonzalo Lionel Munoz from the Bernardino Rivadavia Museum of Natural Sciences said the discovery was “completely unexpected.”
He explained that while dinosaur fossils are commonly found, intact eggs are extremely rare, especially in such pristine condition. The egg, about the size of an ostrich’s, likely belonged to a Bonapartenykus, a small meat-eating theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period.
Munoz added that finding eggs from carnivorous dinosaurs is even rarer, as they were fewer in number and their eggs were delicate. Scientists clarified that there are no plans to extract DNA or conduct any “Jurassic Park”-style experiments.
