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Dinosaur Egg Fossil Contains Exquisitely Preserved Embryo
A group of fossils were uncovered in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, China, in 2000. They were delivered to a museum where they were stored. Only in 2015 did a researcher notice that a fossil dinosaur egg had a crack that revealed an embryo inside, developed to just days short of hatching. The 66 million-year-old dinosaur was an oviraptorosaur, a type of dinosaur that would evolve into birds. And the embryo, named "Baby Yingliang," shows many birdlike features. These include a beak, egg teeth used to break out of a shell, a hard shell, and embryonic feathers. Baby Yingliang was still a dinosaur, however, as it had front claws instead of wings. A feature not previously seen in embryonic dinosaur fossils is the "head tucking" posture found in embryonic birds.
Horseshoe Crab Embryos Look Like Metroid Aliens
Ph.D. student Julia Van Etten started her project Couch Microscopy when she was recovering from an illness and stuck at home on a couch. She’d go out to puddles, ponds, streams, swamps, and oceans to collect water samples that she’d then analyze with a darkfield microscope.I’m fascinated by her video clip of horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) embryos, shown above in 20x magnification at 10x speed. They look like the alien species from the Metroid video game series!#microscopy #horseshoecrab #Metroid #embryo
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