It is the second largest egg known to exist.
a Large “ball” that was discovered in Antarctica by the Chilean researchers in 2011, appeared to be an egg with a soft shell, deferred prehistoric marine reptiles about 66 million years ago.
A giant soft-shelled egg from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica.
Legendre, L. J., Rubilar-Rogers, D., Musser, G. M. et al. . Nature (2020). https://t.co/owG2DseDom
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To such conclusion came a group of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin. Their trial published in Nature. For a long time the discovery was kept unexplored in the collection of the National Museum of natural history in Chile.
the Egg length of almost 30 cm — the largest of all eggs with a soft shell and the second largest of all known.
Paleontologists believe that the egg was postponed extinct marine reptile, such as mosasaur as rock, in which was found the egg also contains small fossils of mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, along with older samples. The cub, which was in the egg had to hatch, the scientists say.
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