A 90 Million-year-old turtle has been discovered in the world. A giant fossilized turtle egg has been discovered that is believed to hav...
A 90 Million-year-old turtle has been discovered in the world.
A giant fossilized turtle egg has been discovered that is believed to have been made by a turtle that lived 90 million years ago. An egg the size of a tennis ball, protected by a thick shell, was discovered in 2018 by a farmer in Henan province of China, who sent it to a university for research.
A turtle egg the size of a tennis ball, containing a nearly developed fetus, has been discovered in east-central China. Nanhsiungchelyids are a family of turtles found in Cretaceous deposits in Asia and North America.The research team, which included scientists from the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, Henan National Museum and Canada's Royal Ontario Museum, conducted a CT-scan on the egg.
This tennis ball-sized turtle egg, which contains a nearly developed fetus, was discovered in east-central China.While thousands of dinosaur eggs have been found in Henan province over the past 30 years, Zelenitsky said they are rarely found in good condition. Zelenitskythey said the egg likely survived because of its unusual thickness, which the research team measured at 0.07 inches, many times larger than Galapagos tortoise eggs of 0.01 inches.
Considering the size of the shell, the team estimated that it was deposited by a turtle that was 5.3 feet long, meaning from its neck to its tail, it would have been taller than some humans.
Zelenitsky said part of the shell had broken off from the inside, so it's possible the embryo tried to hatch but remained in its shell for 90 million years.