86 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Discovered in China

86 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Egg Discovered in China

Egg clutch containing the sampled dinosaur egg fossil. Credit: Qingmin Chen / CC BY 4.0 Chinese scientists have precisely dated a rare dinosaur egg discovered in central China to around 86 million years ago, using a method never before applied to fossilized eggshells. The fossil was found in the mountains near a Yangtze River tributary in Hubei Province, a region long known for its rich deposits of prehistoric remains. Researchers applied a uran…