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Dinosaur eggs found inside a dino fossil 18 April 2005 by Richard Conan-Davies The first-ever evidence of shelled eggs in a dinosaur skeleton have been discovered in a fossil from China by Paleontologists working in Canada. Dr. Sato, who led the study, explained that "What’s interesting is that, for the first time, we have concrete evidence to indicate a particular mode of reproduction in dinosaurs,"     About 100 to 65 million years old , The dinosaur specimen which contained a fossilised oviduct ( the tube that carried the egg),  were  excavated in Jiangxi Province, China and belongs to a group of 2- to 3-metre long dinosaurs known as oviraptorosaurians. They are part of a larger grouping known as theropods, which are thought to have given rise to birds. The discovery of a fossilised egg in a fossil dinosaur provides direct proof of their way of reproduction. image: www.nature.ca

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