Dozens of dinosaur eggs were discovered by construction workers in China. Nineteen of the 43 eggs are still completely intact. Check out the photos in the gallery and read more on the story after the jump!
Workers were finishing road repairs when they found the fossilized eggs in Heyuan city in China. Heyuan city has the largest number of dinosaur eggs in the world and has now added a new batch to its collection. Construction workers found 43 fossilized dinosaur eggs during road repair work in Heyuan city. The city, which calls itself the “Home of Dinosaurs,” won a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest collection of dinosaur eggs at its museum in 2004.
Huang Zhiqing, deputy director of the Heyuan Museum, told CNN that it was the first time the fossils have been discovered in the center of the city. The road work was stopped as a team of researchers and construction workers began to dig out the fossils.
Nineteen of the eggs are still completely intact, and the largest measuring egg is as much as 13 centimeters (5 inches) in diameter. Researchers said they will continue to examine the fossils to see which dinosaur species they belong to. Many of the eggs in the museum’s collection belong to duck-billed dinosaurs which were around 89 million years ago. Over 17,000 dinosaur eggs have been found in the city since the first group of fossils were found in 1996 by children playing at a construction site.
Wow! Check out the photos of the dinosaur eggs in the gallery!
