Scientists around the world have been left baffled by a recent discovery in Rio Negro, Patagonia, Argentina.
Experts have discovered a perfectly preserved dinosaur egg, probably dating back nearly 70 million years.
The archaeology team behind the discovery states that the egg bears a striking resemblance to that of an ostrich's, adding, “It was likely laid by a member of the Bonapartenykus genus.”
For context, Bonapartenykus is an extinct genus of alvarezsauroid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous of what is now the Allen Formation of the Río Negro Province, Argentina.
Though dinosaur eggs have previously been discovered in the area but none preserved this well has ever been found.
The team plans to run thorough scans on the egg to collect data and they are hopeful that they might find embryonic material as well.
In an interview with National Geographic, Gonzalo Munoz from the Bernardo Rivadavia Argentine Museum expressed his utter surprise over the discovery, adding, “Finding dinosaur fossils is common but finding an egg is extremely rare.”
The egg will be sent to the Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences to run in-depth and find if there are traces of a developing dinosaur.
