43 Fossilized dinosaur eggs found by construction workers in China

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Last Updated : Apr 23 2015 | 12:28 PM IST

Construction workers in China discovered 43 fossilized dinosaur eggs during roadwork in Heyuan City.

Of the lot, 19 of the eggs were still intact were reportedly still intact, and Du Yanli, curator of the city's dinosaur museum, said that they were large in size with one having 13 centimeters diameter, ABC News reported.

The eggs have been sent to the museum for further research.

City of Heyuan in Guangdong province is popularly known as "Home of Dinosaurs" and also holds the record for the largest collection of dinosaur egg fossils in the world, with 10,008, as per to the Guinness Book of World Records.

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First Published: Apr 23 2015 | 12:17 PM IST

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