Which came first, the theropod or the egg?
December 22, 2021 2:38 AM Subscribe
Meet 'Baby Yingliang': Exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo is discovered inside a 72 million-year-old fossilised EGG in China., Ian Randall, Daily Mail, 21 December 2021 • Unearthed in Shahe Industrial Park in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province • Species of toothless, beaked theropod dinosaurs, or 'oviraptorosaurs' [WP] • One of the most complete dinosaur embryos known, 10.6 inches long • Posture is closer to embryonic modern-day birds than among dinosaurs • Tucking behaviour aids hatching, arose first in theropods. (The cutaway egg video and illustration are striking.)
More about the leader of the science team Lida Xing, China University of Geosciences (Google Scholar).
posted by cenoxo at 3:31 AM on December 22, 2021
posted by cenoxo at 3:31 AM on December 22, 2021
Awww, what a cute lil' prehistoric chest burster. C'mon, you can do it!
Well, I guess it is a little late for that.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 6:35 AM on December 22, 2021
Well, I guess it is a little late for that.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 6:35 AM on December 22, 2021
Well, I guess it is a little late for that.
My understanding is that life, uh, finds a way.
posted by curious nu at 7:10 AM on December 22, 2021 [7 favorites]
My understanding is that life, uh, finds a way.
posted by curious nu at 7:10 AM on December 22, 2021 [7 favorites]
That's so cool! It's about five times the size of a newly hatched chicken, so does that mean that the grown animal would have been about five times the size of a chicken as well?
posted by Harald74 at 9:18 AM on December 22, 2021
posted by Harald74 at 9:18 AM on December 22, 2021
The key question of course is, "Does it taste like chicken?"
posted by chavenet at 9:46 AM on December 22, 2021
posted by chavenet at 9:46 AM on December 22, 2021
One of the comments to Daily Mail dinosaur egg article: "There is 600 of them in parliment its not that special." [sic]
posted by xigxag at 11:32 AM on December 22, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by xigxag at 11:32 AM on December 22, 2021 [1 favorite]
Dinosaur Embryos Tucked Themselves in Just Like Birds — A stunning fossil egg has allowed paleontologists to find new clues about a dinosaur’s early development, Smithsonian Magazine, Riley Black, December 21, 2021 has another reconstruction of the egg (by Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi), and a museum diorama (perhaps life-sized) of a female oviraptorid and her hatchlings.
See also images at The Royal Society - Journals > Biology Letters > Incubation behaviours of oviraptorosaur dinosaurs in relation to body size, 16 May 2018, and Wikipedia's Timeline of oviraptorosaur research.
For relative scale, Getty Images has a photo (by Wang Dongming, China News Service) of the fossilized egg in a display case at the impressive Yingliang Stone Nature History Museum in Fujian Province.
I can't wait for transporters to appear, but until that day the web is the next best thing to being there.
posted by cenoxo at 8:16 PM on December 22, 2021
See also images at The Royal Society - Journals > Biology Letters > Incubation behaviours of oviraptorosaur dinosaurs in relation to body size, 16 May 2018, and Wikipedia's Timeline of oviraptorosaur research.
For relative scale, Getty Images has a photo (by Wang Dongming, China News Service) of the fossilized egg in a display case at the impressive Yingliang Stone Nature History Museum in Fujian Province.
I can't wait for transporters to appear, but until that day the web is the next best thing to being there.
posted by cenoxo at 8:16 PM on December 22, 2021
"Does it taste like chicken?"
Beginning with the opening credits in The Freshman (1990), and ending with a properly prepared dinner for discerning guests, all exotic reptiles should taste likechicken smoked turkey.
posted by cenoxo at 10:12 PM on December 22, 2021
Beginning with the opening credits in The Freshman (1990), and ending with a properly prepared dinner for discerning guests, all exotic reptiles should taste like
posted by cenoxo at 10:12 PM on December 22, 2021
Ooo awesome. I hope Terrible Lizards cover this in their new podcast series next year.
posted by poxandplague at 4:00 AM on December 23, 2021
posted by poxandplague at 4:00 AM on December 23, 2021
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Here's some non-Faily Mail links: BBC, Washington Post, Indian Express, UPI
A-and the science
posted by chavenet at 2:58 AM on December 22, 2021 [5 favorites]