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80-million-year-old dinosaur 'tiny eggs' discovered at a Chinese construction site are the smallest eggs ever found – and belong to a never-before-seen T. rex relative

80-million-year-old dinosaur 'tiny eggs' discovered at a Chinese construction site are the smallest eggs ever found – and belong to a never-before-seen T. rex relative

The smallest non-avian dinosaur eggs ever discovered have been discovered in China and have been assigned to a never-before-seen species. The tiny fossil treasures, each about the size of a grape, were discovered at a building site just days after they were likely destroyed by construction work.

The little six egg It was recovered during a field survey of a construction site near Ganzhou in southeastern China in 2021. According to Chinese official media. The fossilized shells, known as 'little Ganzhou eggs', were irregularly arranged within a mass of rock, making it difficult to determine whether they were part of a single nest. This rock dates back approximately 80 million years, to the Paleolithic era Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago).