Ancient turtle embryo preserved inside thick, tough egg zmescience.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from zmescience.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A fossil egg found by a Chinese farmer has turned out to have a rare surprise inside: A baby turtle nearly ready to hatch. For the first time, that’s allowed scientists to figure out what kind of ancient turtle laid that egg.
The first known example of an ancient fossilised turtle embryo preserved inside an egg shows that land-dwelling turtles from the Late Cretaceous period had exceptionally tough eggshells
Meet the caribou of the Cretaceous : How ancient hadrosaurs spread across Earth Salon 5/2/2021 Reconstruction of Yamatosaurus with Kamuysaurus in the background Masato Hattori
You may not know the term hadrosaur, but you can probably visualize the dinosaur it refers to. Also known as the duck-billed dinosaur because the bones in their snouts look like the beaks on ducks, hadrosaurs had long bodies; in some cases, they possessed protuberances on their faces or backs that gave them a distinctive look. Unlike the terrifying T. Rex, hadrosaurs were herbivores, meaning they only ate plants. They were also quite numerous during their heyday, so much so that they are the most commonly discovered of all dinosaurs.
Así es el Yamatosaurus, el dinosaurio con pico de pato recién descubierto en Japón ngenespanol.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ngenespanol.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.