Real Life Baby Dinosaur
This little prenatal dinosaur looks just like a baby bird curled in its egg, said Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh. That visual match supports the idea that several features we see in birds today began in their dinosaur ancestors. Life reconstruction of a close-to-hatching oviraptorosaur dinosaur embryo, based on the new specimen Baby Yingliang.
A fossilized embryo shows dinosaurs curled like baby birds in eggs, hinting that bird hatching behaviors first evolved in theropods. This is Baby Yingliang one of the most complete dinosaur embryos ever found. In this cinematic timelapse, the fossil is slowly revealed from stone, exposing a perfectly preserved glimpse into...
Scientists have announced the discovery of a perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo that was preparing to hatch from its egg, just like a chicken. The embryo was discovered in Ganzhou in southern... A 66-million-year-old fossil of a complete baby dinosaur in its egg, apparently just a few days before it would hatch.
About 70 million years ago, a wee ostrich-like dinosaur wriggled inside its egg, putting itself into the best position to hatch. But that moment never came; the embryo, dubbed "Baby Yingliang,"... A rare and exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo tucked inside an egg like a baby bird has been unearthed in southern China, providing an "unprecedented glimpse" into dinosaur development.
What is Baby Yingliang? Baby Yingliang is an exceptionally well-preserved embryo of an oviraptorosaur, a type of toothless, feathered theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (10066 million years ago) in regions now known as Asia and North America. Hidden away in the storage room of a museum in China, a fossilized egg sat collecting dust for over a decade. Inside, paleontologists uncovered something extraordinarya perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo, nicknamed Baby Yingliang.
A newly reported fossil of an oviraptorid embryo, nicknamed Baby Yingliang, provides an extraordinary glimpse into the evolution of bird-like behaviors in dinosaurs.
