Dinosaur Eggs Found by Construction Workers in a Chinese City

Heyuan city in Southern China calls itself the "Home of Dinosaurs" because it holds the Guinness of World for the most dinosaur eggs.  Now they can add more to their collection.  Construction workers unearthed 43 fossilized eggs.  They were repairing the road and discovered some as wide as 5 inches. 19 of the eggs are fully intact.  Researchers have been trying to figure out what type they are.  Nearly 17,000 eggs have already been discovered.  The first eggs were found by children playing in a construction site in 1996.  Most of the eggs in their museum's collection are a type of oviarptorid and duck-billed dinosaurs.  These types of dinosaurs roamed the earth 89 million years ago.


Naomi Ng. "Dozens of Dinosaur eggs discovered by Construction workers in Chinese City." CNN. Web. 24 April 2015<http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/21/asia/china-dinosaur-eggs-found/index.html>