Chinese archaeologists unearthed nearly 100 fossilized dinosaur eggs dating back to the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods in a rural area in central China's Hubei Province.
They were discovered by construction workers when they lifted a millstone-sized rock on the expressway road, which will run through the Jinyin Mountain in Yunxi County of Hubei Province.
Among the first group of 14 fossilized dinosaur eggs discovered at the construction site, 11 were interlocked. The eggs are pale blue and buried four meters deep, said Wu Xianzhu, an associate research fellow of the Hubei Provincial Research Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.
Local archaeologists confirmed the site, which covers 5,000 square meters, to be an important region full of fossilized dinosaur eggs and ordered workers to stop normal construction. Archaeologists are continuing excavation work.
(Xinhua News Agency April 8, 2005)
