Impeccably preserved embryo highlights how dinos looked pre-hatching

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An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds.

The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic skeleton of an oviraptorid dinosaur, which has been nicknamed Baby Yingliang after the name of the Chinese museum which houses the fossil. Baby dinosaur bones are small and fragile and are only very rarely preserved as fossils, making this a very lucky find, said Darla Zelenitsky, an associate professor in the department of geoscience at the University of Calgary in Canada.

"It is an amazing specimen ... I have been working on dinosaur eggs for 25 years and have yet to see anything like it," said Zelenitsky, a coauthor of the research that published in the journal iScience on Tuesday.

"Up until now, little has been known of what was going on inside a dinosaur's egg prior to hatching, as there are so few embryonic skeletons, particularly those that are complete and preserved in a life pose," she said in an email.

Source - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/21/asia/baby-dinosaur-inside-egg-scn/index.html

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I wonder which infos will they get from it. 

I hope there is living DNK in it

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Can't wait to see her hatch

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3 hours ago, TSUNAMI said:

I wonder which infos will they get from it. 

I hope there is living DNK in it

It's impossible for any DNA to survive this long.  The only remnant scientists might find is petrified traces that may give partial clues about the DNA.

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3 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said:

It's impossible for any DNA to survive this long.  The only remnant scientists might find is petrified traces that may give partial clues about the DNA.

You just had to ruin it for me. I'll pretend I didn't read your comment

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Didn't even emerge from the Vessel 

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Ok but forreal now, is it ever possible to bring them back? Cause I don’t know if that would even be a good idea or not, but I am SO fascinated by the thought sometimes...

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10 hours ago, moonsago said:

Ok but forreal now, is it ever possible to bring them back? Cause I don’t know if that would even be a good idea or not, but I am SO fascinated by the thought sometimes...

Unlike DNA from extinct mega-fauna like mammoths that died more recentely to our timeline, all dinosaur DNA must be gone by now. They only attempts to recreate dinosaurs might involve altering bird genes in a way that the animals would resemble dinosaurs more. So, the result would be a genetically modified bird but not a revived dinosaur. And that probably also crosses well into unethical territory.