Dinosaur egg unearthed in perfect condition after 70M years— and it could hold genetic material

New York Post ^ | 10/23/25 | Ben Cost

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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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