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About the cover
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Fossil dinosaur & \3 p- _9 E! r4 x& A6 E, @1 ?
embryos are extremely rare, and mainly restricted to the Late Cretaceous period. 5 ]$ e+ c& I- a9 F' w
Hence the interest in a newly uncovered bone bed of Lower Jurassic sauropodomorph - q: D) h0 x' u+ b2 a, }3 X
embryos from China, which at about 190–197 million years old is the oldest : X% X* P5 ^6 i7 o% L3 r/ I
assemblage of such bones ever found. A three-year multinational programme of 5 S/ V) H$ G; Q9 [/ n
excavation and research has yielded a treasure trove of embryonic bones, and the ! V b: E4 X/ V
oldest known evidence of organic remains. Study of bones preserved at various
8 c; R( Z( V& L: M2 X9 e5 T( a! l3 @+ ydevelopmental stages indicates that these large dinosaurs had a short incubation
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skeleton for life in the outside world. On the cover, a coloured thin section of
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