put together, this is a baby dinosaur inside its egg. it looks like a bird. if you blinked you might think it s a chicken or sparrow. that s because it has the exact same posture in the egg. its head is curled up underneath its arms. that s the same posture birds have in their eggs and it s all about getting ready to develop so the head is in the right position to break through the egg so it can be a successful hatch. did this confirm your earlier research or some of what we knew about the progression from dinosaur to birds? it did and that s what s really neat. a couple of years ago i wrote a book the rise and fall of dinosaurs behind me. but there s a whole chapter about the dinosaur/bird connection. we ve known this going back to darwin. we have started to find fossils of dinosaurs covered in feathers showing that things like