It’s definitely the dream of every palaeontologist to come across fossilised dinosaur eggs while walking down the street and minding their own business.
This actually happened in reality to this boy from China who believe it or not, came across 11 such eggs while he was spending time with his mother outside in the city of Heyuan.
The eggs turned out to date back to approximately 65 million years ago prior to the extinction of the reptiles and measure around 9 cm in diameter and were relatively intact.
Young Boy Accidentally Finds Fossilized Dinosaur Eggs
The boy, Zhang Yangzhe, said he first thought they were discarded walnuts in the soil while playing in the east bank of the Dongjiang Bridge.
But, when he took a better look, the third-grade student saw a cement-like circle in the ground similar to a round stone.
This is when he asked his momma to take a look and she thought it was a shell similar to the ones of dinosaur eggs.
The mother, Li Xiaofang, said to the reporters that her son knew this because he read books about dinosaurs. And, she also explained that his school regularly teaches the students about dinosaurs and to inform parents or the police in case they find eggs in the wild.
This is because the Heyuan City has been honoured by the China Geological Survey’s Stratum and Palaeontology Centre as the Hometown of the Dinosaur in China.
They’re also in the Guinness Book of World Records after more than 10,000 dinosaur egg fossils have been found in different parts of the city and with the ones from China accounting for 1/3 of the total found in the whole world.
The mother contacted the police after their discovery and they immediately came to the scene along with staff from the Heyuan Dinosaur Museum.
The experts confirmed that these ‘round stones’ were exposed to dinosaur egg fossils. Later on, they located a whole litter of dinosaur egg fossils. They came from the late Cretaceous period.
The eggs were taken to the Museum and further studied, repaired, and cleaned.
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