A hoard of 30-oval shaped dinosaur eggs has been discovered in south-East China, according to reports. The Jurassic era dinosaur eggs were unearthed by construction workers while digging up the site of a school in Dayu County, Ganzhou, China. They found the nest with the preserved dino eggs in excellent conditions. The latest dinosaur eggs discovered from China is believed to be 130 million years old, that means, they belong to the Cretaceous period. The eggs were covered with 2mm-thick black debris.

“More than 11 o’clock in the morning, construction workers blasting earthwork at the construction site. As they prepared to break down the boulder after it was exploded, it was found that there were some oval stones and black fragments of about 2 mm in thickness, suspected of dinosaur egg fossils. So stop working immediately and contact the local museum,” reported Chinese news agency.

The 130 million-year-old dinosaur eggs were discovered by the construction workers when they were breaking the ground near the school site with explosives. They saw a cluster of oval-shaped stones in the earth and suspected it to be eggs of dinosaur. They immediately stopped their work and called the police. After reaching the site, the police sealed the site and alerted the Dayu County museum staff, as reported by China News. Then the building was shut down, and the scientists started recovering the eggs.

According to the experts, the latest discovered prehistoric eggs were the fossilized eggs of dinosaurs and are present in well-preserved condition. They belong to the Cretaceous age which is considered as the final period of the dinosaur era. The Daily Mail reported that 2mm-thick black debris was the fossilized eggshells of the dinosaurs of the Jurassic era. The eggs have been taken to the museum for further study. Scientists believe China was home to at least 20 different species of dinosaur species during the Jurassic period. Also, the city of Ganzhou, where the latest fossilized dino eggs were found, is called as the hometown of Dinosaurs.

“The fossil record tells us that feathers like the one we have studied were already present on a wide range of theropod dinosaurs. Although we can’t be sure what kind of dinosaur the tick was feeding on, the mid-Cretaceous age of the Burmese amber confirms that the feather certainly did not belong to a modern bird,” said Dr Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente, study co-author and a palaeobiologist at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Recently, in another find, Paleontologists in China had successfully discovered more than 200 fossilized eggs of dinosaur that were believed to be belonging to Pterosaurs. These Pterosaurs are known as prehistoric flying reptiles that lived from Triassic period to the end of the Cretaceous period. In recent couple of months, many fossilized eggs, as well as fossilized bone remains of the Jurassic era creatures, have been unearthed from different parts of the world. Scientists are thoroughly studying these prehistoric fossilized remains of dinosaurs in an effort to crack many more mysteries surrounding these giant extinct reptiles.