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[Skip Dahlgren <SDAHLGREN@liblan.uams.edu>]

I just found this press release among the headline news on America Online.  
Thought folks might find it interesting.

I'd like to know more about this, if anyone has further info, such as 
species, etc. - little stuff like that!  :)

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Dinosaur Embryo in Fossil Egg Found   

    BEIJING (Reuter) - Chinese scientists have photographed a dinosaur embryo 
inside a prehistoric fossilized egg, Xinhua news agency said Friday. 

    Calling the achievement a world first, Xinhua said paleontologists at 
Zhengzhou University in central China made the image by scanning the egg with 
gamma rays. 

    An embryonic skeleton is visible in the image, the scientists said. 

    ``The experts say the finding, the first of its kind in the world, will 
contribute greatly to the study of the extinct animal,'' Xinhua said. 

    The egg, dating from the Cretaceous period more than 100 million years 
ago, is one of more than 5,000 unearthed in the Henan province county of 
Xixia, they said. 

    Fossilised dinosaur eggs, though protected by Chinese law and prohibited 
from export, have become popular items among shoppers at flea markets and 
antique shops. 




Transmitted: 95-02-24 11:04:02 EST
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Skip Dahlgren - sdahlgren@liblan.uams.edu; bcsskip@aol.com
Applications Programmer, Office of Educational Development
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
-lifelong afficionado of dinosaurs and their latter-day kin