Posted on 10/23/2025 4:57:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It was in egg-cellent condition.
Argentine paleontologists found a real diamond in the rough after happening across a perfectly preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg during an excavation.
“It was a complete and utter surprise,” Gonzalo Leonel Muñoz, a Vertebrate paleontologist at the Bernardo Rivadavia Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences, told National Geographic of the “spectacular” find. “‘It’s not uncommon to find dinosaur fossils, but the issue with eggs is that they are much less common.”
The team of paleontologists was reportedly conducting an excavation campaign in the fossil-rich region of Río Negro, when they stumbled across the primeval embryo.
While dinosaur eggs had been excavated in the area before, finding one this well-preserved was super rare.
Accompanying footage and photos posted to the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy and Vertebrate Evolution’s (LACEV) Instagram page show team leader and world-class anatomist Federico Agnolín handling the egg, which is in such immaculate condition that it looks hard-boiled.
“This is quite possibly the FIRST finding of this guy in South America,” reads the caption to one of the clips. “As you can see, this fossil is over 70,000,000 years old, and HE WASN’T ALONE, WE FOUND A NEST.”
This egg, which is about the size of an ostrich embryo, likely belonged to the Bonapartenykus genus – a small, carnivorous theropod that roamed the region during the late Cretaceous period.
“It’s unusual to find the egg of a possible carnivorous dinosaur, much less in this state,” said Muñoz, noting that they were used to seeing “sauropod dinosaur eggs (those with long necks), but these had spherical eggs, like enormous balls, with thicker shells.”
The scientist observed that finding the eggs of carnivorous dinosaurs was rare, as there were far fewer meat-eaters and their eggs were much more fragile,
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The Cossacks were seen in Gotham robbing a uranium store.
70 millions years huh? Genetic material huh?
What an absolute joke. The length people go to, to ignore the evidence staring them in the face.
Was it stamped “70 million years”?
Hahahahahaha!
My bet is on a Rhea egg of modern times. Similar to emu.
It is approximately 70 million years ago because it was found in rocks that were Late Cretaceous in age.
Reminds me of the egg in the movie “Caveman”😏
If it has intact DNA or proteins or intact egg membranes it cannot be that old. Those molecules don’t last that long in lab studies.
The only reason that some think it lasts that long is because they are finding proteins or collagen or rbc’s in dinosaur bones... there’s a whole industry trying to find a natural mechanism that preserves such biochemicals for 65 million years....a much less popular explanation is that the specimens are much younger.
If this egg contains ancient dna, or proteins it may be a relatively young specimen ..
IMHO
Bring back the dinosaurs!
I’ll take it scrambled with bacon and toast.
Don’t forget “70 million” year old bones found with collagen and blood in them....
Which do you believe?
1) DNA and soft tissue can be buried, go though hot and cold for 70M years
Or
2) It’s not 70M years old.
“This egg, which is about the size of an ostrich embryo…”
Well, that comparison helps quite a bit in understanding ding how big it is
Jurassic Park
I’ve seen this movie
tis small
goose or ostrich
They don't know exactly what it is, yet.
Knowing what it is will tell them approximately when it lived along with others of its same type.
There are also many methods for finding an ancient object's age including geological analyses (stratigraphy) & radiometric tools.
JudyinCanada: "Good grief. Sounds like they’re looking for some fame, and possibly funding."
Of course they are.
Everyone wants to be recognized as outstanding in their fields, and to be paid according to their merit.
Whether these ancient eggs are truly as remarkable as their finders hope, is yet to be fully determined.
We can wish them well but also notice that these are far from the first dino-eggs ever discovered, and the chances of finding actual dino-DNA are roughly the same as a snowball's in hades.
Omelette time?
They haven't x-rayed it yet, so they don't know the species for certain.
Once x-rayed (or CT-scanned, etc.), they'll know exactly what it is and so when it lived.
Suggestions of possible ancient DNA, proteins or collagen, seem pretty far-fetched, though I'd guess, you never know for sure until you look.
If anything, possible collagen which will tell us, yet again, that dinosaurs taste like chicken. 😉
AWESOME!.....................
Bless my depraved soul, I love that movie!
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