The smallest-ever nonavian dinosaur eggs have been unearthed in China and assigned to a never-before-seen species. The tiny paleontological treasures, each about the size of a grape, were unearthed at a construction site just days from being potentially destroyed by building work.
The six tiny eggs were recovered during a field survey of a construction site near Ganzhou in southeastern China in 2021, Chinese state media reported. The fossilized shells, known as the "Ganzhou mini eggs," were irregularly arranged within a lump of rock, making it hard to determine if they were part of a single nest. The rock dates back roughly 80 million years, to the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago).
