Scientists have discovered the largest egg of the dinosaur era

Chilean scientists discovered on Seymour Island, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula of Antarctica, a large egg of prehistoric marine reptiles that lived on Earth about 66 million years ago. This was announced at a press conference by paleontologist from the National Museum of Natural History of Chile David Rubilar, who participated in archaeological excavations. The archaeological find was found back in 2011, but scientists did not have accurate data on the origin of the fossil. Research took about eight years, after which they accurately established that the object they found was an egg of an ancient reptile, presumably belonging to an extinct genus of marine reptiles from the mosasaurian family, which lived on the ground 66 82 million years ago. Thanks to this find, we will be able to understand a little more about how large marine reptiles from the Mesozoic or dinosaur times propagated, the researcher noted. It is noted that the egg, weighing 6.5 kg and about 30 cm long, could be demolished by a female, whose length ranged from 7 to 17 m. It is the largest egg of dinosaur times and the second largest in all historical periods, which surpasses only the egg of a bird from the epiornis family that lived in Madagascar until the middle of the 17th century. According to the news agency, archaeologists previously discovered in Zhejiang province in eastern China a complex of Neolithic workshops aged 4,500 to 4800 years.