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Construction Workers Find 30 Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Eggs (bgr.com)

An anonymous reader quotes BGR: Chinese construction workers digging on Christmas day found a gift that was wrapped 130 million years ago in the form of 30 incredibly preserved dinosaur eggs. The discovery was made in the city of Ganzhou at the future site of a new middle school, but work on the new facility had to be put on hold after the ancient eggs were discovered.

According to state media, the workers reported uncovering "oval-shaped stones" while clearing rock away using explosive blasts. The workers suspected they might be important so they alerted local law enforcement who took command of the site and contacted experts from a nearby museum who confirmed the "rocks" were actually fossilized dinosaur eggs. The eggs, which are thought to date from the Cretaceous period, are estimated to be as old as 130 million years. The location where they were discovered is believed to have once been an ancient lakeshore, which would have been a pleasant place for the dinosaurs to raise their brood.

65 comments

  1. I've got a bad feeling about this :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've got a bad feeling about this :)

    1. Re:I've got a bad feeling about this :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's a UNIX system, I know this!

    2. Re:I've got a bad feeling about this :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Amazing skills. But playing a vegetarian nerd didn't translate into better roles. Maybe she should have hooked up with Harvey.

    3. Re:I've got a bad feeling about this :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      His name is Timmy, and that's her brother, idiot. One of the parts of the book that didn't make it into the movie was where Tim and Lex were in the boat with Dr. Grant and he starts talking about reproduction. Lex pipes up that Timmy is very interested in sex, and Chrichton specifically writes that they ignore her. So yes, it is well within the realm of possibility that Lex is attracted to her younger brother, and it might be subtly implied, but it is never really expressed in either the book or the movie.

    4. Re: I've got a bad feeling about this :) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      IRIX to be precise. A strange mix of BSD and SysV. Thier kernel sources were "unusual".

  2. Fossilized or perfectly preserved? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Can the two be synonymous?

    1. Re:Fossilized or perfectly preserved? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What a racist thing to say.

    2. Re:Fossilized or perfectly preserved? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What did you expect? Many years ago, Slashdot was a tech site full of intellectuals. Nowadays it's a tech-themed stormfront.

    3. Re:Fossilized or perfectly preserved? by slashmydots · · Score: 1

      Go try and buy a lot of solid state drives on Alibaba and tell me Chinese don't fake things and sell counterfeits. Come back and join us in the real world then where they're all liars and scammers.

  3. Did they eat one? by rfengr · · Score: 0

    I mean, if hundred year egg is a delicacy, what about this?

    1. Re:Did they eat one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Tastes just like the eggs of a chicken... a 130 million year old chicken.

    2. Re:Did they eat one? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 1

      They need to dig deeper! Maybe they will find some dinosaur bacon.

      A hearty Cretaceous breakfast!

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    3. Re:Did they eat one? by Scarletdown · · Score: 1

      Now I want pterodactyl fried steak smothered in country gravy. No bronto ribs though, a rack of those would turn my little Geo Metro over onto her side.

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    4. Re:Did they eat one? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Note: really enjoyed your genderization of the "little Geo Metro" as a she. Either you are a woman, or you are a man who knows exactly how other men see a Geo Metro

  4. Calling Wayne Knight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wayne, I think we've spotted a tremendous business opportunity for you as an undercover operations guy if you can keep quiet and are willing to travel...

  5. Activate... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    ... .... the Crichtonator!

  6. So cool! by zifn4b · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder why they would have been put there 6,000 years ago to be discovered later by a Chinese construction worker randomly... on Christmas?! It's a sign!

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    1. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Watch out!! It's a satanic trap!!

    2. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      Dinosaurs lived side-by-side with man before the flood. They couldn't survive in the drier atmosphere afterwords.

      The problem here is not the presence of the eggs, but the incorrect methodology used to determine their age.

    3. Re:So cool! by burtosis · · Score: 1

      Yes, incorrect methodology is clearly to blame here. Not to mention all those oil companies with thier oil well drilling. Simply use the right methodology and you convert plants to crude oil in no time. Idiots.

    4. Re:So cool! by Scarletdown · · Score: 1

      If there was any truth to that myth, then that means the Abrahamic deity failed by allowing so many of its creations to go extinct.

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    5. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If there was any truth to that myth, then that means the Abrahamic deity failed by allowing so many of its creations to go extinct.

      Except the one, more than all the others, that should have gone extinct. Wasn't it the whole point of the flood in the first place ?

    6. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      God created the oil along with everything else, duh.

    7. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It isn't failure if it is a choice. If you write a bunch of software and then delete the scripts you no longer use, that doesn't make you a failure. Same deal, here.

      God has the authority to drive-to-extinction anything He creates.

    8. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No, the point of the flood was not to drive humans to extinction.

      It was to punish humanity for its egregious unrighteousness.

      That is precisely why the last vestige of righteousness (Noah and his family) were spared.

    9. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There was no flood and there is no god, it's just a faerie tale. Grow up.

    10. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Grow up?

      Are you aware that there are 2.2 billion Christians in the world?

      Maturity has nothing to do with faith. But it may have something to do with disrespectful speech.

    11. Re: So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I wonder where all that water went.

    12. Re: So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Everyone in the world could be christian.
      And the bible would *still* be made-up stories about non-existent sky fairies.

    13. Re: So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Duh. Isn't it obvious?

      It fell off the edge of the (flat) earth of course, before the circumference ice wall had a chance to regenerate enough to hold the rest of the water in.

    14. Re: So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's all in the oceans. Prior to the flood, the surface of the earth had lower mountains and shallower valleys. The presence of the flood water itself caused differential vertical tectonics, which simultaneously pushed valleys downwards and, as a consequence, mountains upwards. This process eventually stabilized into the surface of the earth that we all know today.

    15. Re:So cool! by Iamthecheese · · Score: 1

      Simply use the right methodology and you convert plants to crude oil in no time.

      Actually...

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    16. Re:So cool! by zifn4b · · Score: 1

      Grow up?

      Are you aware that there are 2.2 billion Christians in the world?

      Maturity has nothing to do with faith. But it may have something to do with disrespectful speech.

      Here are some facts for you to find disrespectful. For whatever reason, Christianity, especially Evangelical Protestant membership, is declining and religious none's are increasing. I suppose it's because we live in a fallen world and the rapture is upon us? You know Christianity wasn't the first group of nuts to have prophecies about the end of the world right? None of those prophecies have come true yet... the Mayan calendar even ran out!

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    17. Re:So cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Grow up?

      Inappropriate choice of words on behalf of that poster, I would say.

      Better fit: Get sane.

      Are you aware that there are 2.2 billion Christians in the world?

      Yes. It is unfortunate. Also worth mentioning that the other religions outnumber Christianity. Also unfortunate, of course, although a few of them are a bit more sane than the others.

      Maturity has nothing to do with faith.

      I agree. It is mostly about mental health. I know plenty people of faith who are perfectly mature. They are, at the same time, delusional. A person can be several things at once. Religious people can be mature while they are delusional. They can also be, and typically are - though there are unfortunate exceptions - friendly, likeable, and many other good things, just as everyone else, religious or not. People are often complex.

      But it may have something to do with disrespectful speech.

      I can't speak for the poster you're responding to. In my case, it's not disrespect.

      I understand the need, the want, to believe in something. I really do.

      It's still delusional.

      Does that then mean that humanity, as a whole, is mostly mass-delusional? Yes, it does. There are many contributing reasons for it being so.

      It's still delusional.

      (I should probably mention that I live in one of the world's most secular countries, where religion is not an integral part of day-to-day life for the vast majority of people, nor of society in general or of the political decision-making processes. And for that, I am very grateful, although there are plenty of other things of which one can complain about even here. No country is perfect.)

  7. Thankfully it was in China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    In the USA, the construction workers would have been to ignorant to care, and at the very least the construction manager would have been too evil, corrupt and greedy to stop construction.

    1. Re: Thankfully it was in China by saloomy · · Score: 1

      No, in USA, the construction workers would have been represented by the union, who would demand full wages while the authorities determine if anything else needs preserving, and the lions share of any value derived from any future finds.

    2. Re: Thankfully it was in China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah because thats TOTALLY who's sucking up all the wealth of the nation.. unions.

      Kill yourself Reganoid.

    3. Re: Thankfully it was in China by denzacar · · Score: 1

      Thank heavens Chinese communists never heard of labor unions...

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    4. Re: Thankfully it was in China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Good point but it is no accident the eggs were "perfectly preserved " making it easy for the workers to spot them. The vast majority of fossils at construction sites go undetected, blending in with the surrounding rock.

  8. Perfectly preserved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Rock...

  9. Re:A little known fact... by zifn4b · · Score: 1

    Dinosaurs didn't actually go extinct. Over hundreds of millions of years they evolved and became humans.

    Black people have a gene from a "ghost" species, so they could have once been human, but mated with monkeys or God knows what and became what they are today.

    Nay, but thanks for playing... here's your sign.

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  10. How did they taste? by johannesg · · Score: 1

    Surely the original Chinese report included this vital information?

    1. Re:How did they taste? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "The Dayu County Museum has since taken possession of the eggs and will study them further."

      I believe that information is forthcoming.

    2. Re:How did they taste? by beckett · · Score: 1

      Like a Plymouth Rock.

  11. Irrelevant! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And what's more,

    ancient lakeshore, which would have been a pleasant place

    is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT. I highly doubt that a triceratops was sitting in a recliner and sipping on a daiquiri enjoying a beautiful day while contemplating how close to the shore she should lay the eggs.

    1. Re: Irrelevant! by saloomy · · Score: 1

      What? Why? I bet the triceratops was infact sitting in a comfy chair, sipping on... well something non-alcoholic I hope, contemplating where to lay her eggs. On the lake shore is nice, but the prices would have made providing them with all they need and want a hard thing to do, if you are also working to afford said lake shore.

  12. Damn it, Jim! by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!

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  13. Dragons yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Well? Can we has?

  14. Re:A little known fact... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Funny

    You got it all wrong.

    Over hundreds of millions of years, Dinosaurs evolved into rocks and this is proof.

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  15. No, alien ovomorphs. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is just probably a cache of ovomorphs mistakenly believed to be dinosaur eggs. Please refrain from looking inside when they open up... But with proper cooking skills you can catch the "facehugger" and make a delicious new years eve dinner of it:

    https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Facehugger-Feast-Body-Image-1-11142017.jpg

  16. It's China. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    More likely fakes than real dino eggs. All the chinks do is make fakes.. Versace, Doctoral Degrees, Milk.. it's all fake in China.

    FAKE NEWS.

  17. Jurassic Park by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hold on to your butts!

  18. Re:Chinosaur by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    opee the dorh
    get on to floor
    Every peopoh doing chinosaur

  19. They will want its DNA. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dragonsauro!!!

  20. Dragon's eggs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Now we just need a reptilian hot chick with silver hair to hatch them.

  21. They're not fake dinosaurs, they're knockoffs. by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 0

    Everyone knows the Chinese steal intellectual property; why wouldn't they be pirating dinosaur DNA?

    I wouldn't give these eggs to Daenerys Targaryen as presents; she'd walk out of the fire with dragons that flop over as soon as she tells them to fly.

  22. Re:Lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You know it's a seperate country with its own rules and tuff. How can it be illegal? Because you don't like it? Go to China and arrest them. I'll watch from a safe distance and video it for youtube. Should be funny.

  23. Ancient chinese delicacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thousand year egg

  24. Jurassic Park here we go!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This can't be good.