Baby dinosaur fossil revealed to be an entirely new species
A mysterious 90-million-year-old dinosaur fetus has finally been identified as an entirely new species, reports a new study published 25 years after the dino’s discovery. The paper closes the cold case by giving the fossilized fetus an official name: Beibeilong sinensis, which means “baby dragon from China.”
Since it was first unearthed, the little fossil has crossed from China to the US and back again. It was originally excavated from a field in Henan, China, in 1992 and sold to fossil dealer Charles Magovern in 1993. At his workshop in Colorado, Magovern chipped away at the stone and discovered between six and eight giant, crushed oblong eggs inside. At 2AM one morning, after clearing away the surrounding rock, Magovern uncovered what…