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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.
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.
I've got a bad feeling about this :)
Can the two be synonymous?
I mean, if hundred year egg is a delicacy, what about this?
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...
... .... the Crichtonator!
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!
We'll make great pets
This story reeks of covfefe.
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.
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.
Rock...
Surely the original Chinese report included this vital information?
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.
Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Well? Can we has?
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
The Chinosaur is shorter than its western counterpart, with an elongated torso and narrow eyes covered by fatty epicanthic folds. Like all Asian lifeforms, the chinosaur is considered to be a sneaky, duplicitous reptile, however, the academic consensus is that "all chinosaur rook same-same"
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.
Hold on to your butts!
Dragonsauro!!!
Just more fake Chinese propaganda to cover up the highly illegal genetic experiments they are doing. Every time they report a new "discovery" it gets reported, and then when the scientific community wants to look at the facts they get stalled and frozen out by the Chinese government. Until it's been independently verified by somebody who is NOT part of the Chinese government and by somebody who isn't going to gain from it in China, it's not worth looking at an it should be considered fakenews like all the other so-called unverified "discoveries"
Now we just need a reptilian hot chick with silver hair to hatch them.
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.
Thousand year egg
This can't be good.