Rare feathered baby dinosaur found, 70 million years old embryonic fossil found in China, named ‘Baby Yingliang’
In South China, scientists have found a fossil of a dinosaur egg. The special thing is that despite the passage of about 70 million years, the fossil of the dinosaur embryo inside the egg is well preserved. This fetus has been named ‘Baby Yingliang’.
According to experts, this embryo found in an egg about 70 million years old is the most complete dinosaur embryo ever known. According to scientists from the University of Birmingham, this embryo belongs to the Oviraptorosaur species.
Dinosaur baby was very close to birth
Baby Yingliang was discovered in the rocks of ‘Hekou Formation’ in Ganzhou city of Jiangxi province of China. This research has been done jointly by scientists from China, United Kingdom and Canada. They found that this dinosaur embryo is one of the rarest fossils. Research has also shown that baby Yingliang was very close to being born when the egg was a victim of some kind of natural disaster. This egg is about 7 inches long, while the fossil of a baby dinosaur inside it is about 11 inches long from head to tail. Scientists believe that after becoming an adult, this dinosaur would have grown up to 2 to 3 meters long.
Winged dinosaur
According to scientists, this embryo belongs to the Oviraptorosaur species. This species did not have teeth. These were dinosaurs with beak and feathers. They were found on the rocks of Asia and North America. According to scientists, the shape of the beak and body of oviraptorosaurs was such that they could adopt many types of food.
Fossils like modern birds
According to scientists, the head of the embryo in the fossil was below its body. His back was bent according to the shape of an egg. Also, both feet were located towards the head. In today’s birds this posture is called ‘Tucking’. This posture is necessary for the successful hatching of the chicks. Scientists believe that these dinosaurs used to sit on their eggs and incubate them like modern birds.
