14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this month, a group of workers repairing a road in the city of Heyuan in China's Guandong province came across a few dozen oddly-shaped stones.
Rather than simply throw them away, they asked scientists to have a look at them. Soon enough, the peculiar stones were identified as fossilized dinosaur eggs.
It is understood that, all in all, the workers found as many as 43 dinosaur eggs. Of these, some measure as much as 5 inches (nearly 13 centimeters) across. Besides, 19 of the eggs are perfectly preserved.
As for their age, it is estimated that the fossilized dinosaur remains date back to about 65 to 89 million years back, The Verge informs.
For now, paleontologists are clueless about which species the eggs might belong to. The fossils are currently kept at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and scientists are doing their best to identify them.
Interestingly enough, reports say that around 17,000 fossilized dinosaur eggs have been found in the city of Heyuan since the mid-1990s until now. Most of them are on display at the local museum.
Thanks to its impressive trove of fossilized eggs, this city in China is often referred to as the hometown of dinosaurs. It even holds a Guinness record for the largest collection of dinosaur eggs.
