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Perfectlypreserveddinosaurembryo
最完整的恐龙胚胎
中国科学家在蛋化石中发现了保存完好的恐龙胚胎化石标本，这个标本叫作“英良贝贝”，是一只尚未破壳的窃蛋龙宝宝。
1?Scientists?in?China?have?discovered?a?rare?66?million?year?old?perfectly?
preserved?fossil?of?a?baby?dinosaur?in?its?egg?showing?similarities?between?
tetrapod?（兽脚类）?dinosaurs?and?the?birds?they?would?evolve?（进化）?into.
2?The?embryo?（胚胎）?has?been?named?Baby?Yingliang?after?the?museum?in?southern?China?where?it?was?discovered.
3?According?to?an?ABC?News?report?published，?the?fossilised?bones?are?seen?curled?up?inside?its?6?inch?long?eggshell?and?look?almost?exactly?like?a?modern?bird?at?that?stage，?although?it?has?tiny?arms?and?claws?rather?than?wings.
4?Fion?Waisum?Ma，?a?paleontologist?at?the?University?of?Birmingham?and
?one?of?the?authors?of?the?fossil?study?published?in?the?journal?iScience，?was?quoted?as?saying?that?the?head?in?the?embryo?has?a?striking?similarity?with?the?
head-of?a?newly?hatched?bird，?especially?because?of?its?mouth，?which?was?a?feature?of?the?dinosaur?species，?called?oviraptorosaur.
5?Oviraptorosaurs?were?a?type?of?theropod?dinosaur?with?hollow?bones?and
?three?toed?limbs.?It?was?very?close?to?the?dinosaurs;that?evolved?into?modern?birds.
6?According?to?ABC?News，?embryonic?dinosaur?fossils，?which?the?paleontologists?have?found?at?only?about?half?a?dozen?sites，?are?extremely?valuable.
7?This?is?also?the?first?time?that?any?embryonic?dinosaur?fossils?have?shown?
signs?of?a?distinctive?posture?known?as?“tucking”，?which?means?the?head?
placed?under?the?right?arm，?though?some?dinosaur?embryos?have?shown?
distinct?“egg?teeth”?that?they?may?have?used?to?break?out?of?their?shells，
?said?John?Nudds，?a?paleontologist?at?the?University?of?Manchester，?who?wasn’t?involved?in?the?study.
8?The?researchers?said?the?embryo?s?shape?was?unique，?with?the?head?in?
the?lower?part?of?the?body?and?legs?around?the?head—similar?to?a?modern?
bird?embryo.?The?process?of?hatching，?which?earlier?studies?suggested?was?unique?to?birds，?may?have?evolved?from?dinosaurs
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