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Paleontologists find 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg in perfect condition (PHOTOS)

2025-10-24 17:39:30Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Paleontologists find 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg in perfect condition
Paleontologists find 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg in perfect condition

Argentine paleontologists accidentally found a perfectly preserved 70-million-year-old dinosaur egg during an excavation.

"It was a complete and absolute surprise," Gonzalo Leonel Muñoz, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences Bernardo Rivadavia, told National Geographic of the "spectacular" discovery. "It's not uncommon to find dinosaur fossils, but the problem with eggs is that they're much less common."

Paleontologists find 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg in perfect condition

The team of paleontologists was reportedly conducting an excavation campaign in the fossil-rich Río Negro region when they came across the ancient embryo.

While dinosaur eggs had been excavated in the area before, finding one so well-preserved was very rare.

The footage and accompanying photos posted on the Instagram page of the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of Vertebrates (LACEV) show team leader and world-class anatomist Federico Agnolín holding the egg, which is in such perfect condition that it appears hard-boiled.

Paleontologists find 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg in perfect condition

"This is most likely the FIRST find of this guy in South America," the caption of one of the clips reads. "As you can see, this fossil is over 70,000,000 years old, and IT WASN'T ALONE, WE FOUND A NEST."

This egg, which is about the size of an ostrich embryo, likely belonged to the genus Bonapartenykus - a small carnivorous theropod that roamed the region during the late Cretaceous period.

Paleontologists find 70 million-year-old dinosaur egg in perfect condition

"It's unusual to find the egg of a possible carnivorous dinosaur, much less in this condition," Muñoz said, noting that they were used to seeing "sauropod dinosaur eggs (those with long necks), but these had spherical eggs, like giant balls, with thicker shells."

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