Animal 13:48, 22-Dec-2021 Scientist finds perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo in east China CGTN Share This undated illustration shows a close-to-hatching oviraptorosaur dinosaur embryo, which is based on the new specimen "Baby Yingliang" found in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, east China. /AFP/University of Birmingham/Lida Xing Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. This extraordinary paleontology discovery was published in Science magazine on December 22, 2021, by a joint research team consisting of scientists from China, Canada and the UK. The fossil belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed "Baby Yingliang," after the name of a Chinese museum which houses the fossil. Skeletons of dinosaurs are rarely preserved in the embryonic stage, fewer still intact. "It is on...