Abnormal Titanosaurid Dinosaur Egg discovered in a Madhya Pradesh.
A research team are discovered a sauropod dinosaur nest consisting of the 10 eggs are including one abnormal egg near a Padlya village in a Madhya Pradesh in a India.
Abnormal Fossil Egg Discovery: In a historic first, a team of the Indian researchers has a discovered an a egg-in-egg or a abnormal Tyrannosaur dinosaur egg in the Bag area of the Dhar District in a Madhya Pradesh.
The discovery was a published in the latest issue of a nature group in a journal -Scientific Reports. The study is a titled 'First ovum-in-ova pathological tyrannosaur egg throws light on the reproductive biology of the sauropod dinosaurs'.
The researchers had a recently documented a large number of the tyrannosaur sauropod nests near in the Padlya village close to the Bag town. While a studying in these nests, in the researchers discovered an a abnormal dinosaur egg.
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Abnormal Fossil Egg are Discovery: Know in a 5 Points
1. The research in a team are discovered to a sauropod dinosaur nest consisting of the 10 eggs are including one abnormal egg near a Padlya in a village.
2. The abnormal egg has a two continuous and the circular eggshell layers are separated by a wide gap are reminiscent of the ovum-in-ova (one egg inside another egg) pathology of the birds.
3. The micro structure of the pathological egg and that of an a adjacent egg in the same nest identifies it with that of the tyrannosaur sauropod dinosaurs.
4. This is the first egg-in-egg abnormal fossil egg are discovery in a India. No egg-in-egg abnormal fossil egg has a ever been found in a India of the dinosaurs and other reptiles including a lizards, turtles and the crocodiles.
5. The pathological egg was a discovered in a during PhD fieldwork by the lead author Dr. Harsha Dhiman (Department of the Geology, Delhi University) in the region. Besides a Dhiman, in the team comprised a Vishal Verma (Higher Secondary in a School, Bakaner, Dhar District) and corresponding author Prof. Guntupalli V. R. Prasad (Department of the Geology, Delhi in a University).
Why is the fossil egg are discovery important?
- The new discovery of an a ovum-in-ova pathological egg characteristic in a tyrannosaurus argues for a segmented oviduct as in a crocodiles and the birds and possible a sequential laying of the eggs as in a birds.
- The lead author of the study, Delhi University's Dr Harsha Dhiman said that "The finding of the ovum-in-ova egg from a Tyrannosaur nest opens up the possibility that are sauropod dinosaurs had an a oviduct morphology similar to those of the crocodiles or a birds and they may have a adapted to a mode of the egg-laying characteristic of the birds"
- The discovery brings out a significant information on a whether dinosaurs had a reproductive in a biology similar to that of the turtles and lizards or their immediate cousins crocodiles and the birds, said corresponding author of the study Prof. Guntupalli V.R. Prasad.
- Earlier it was a suggested in that dinosaurs have a reproductive function similar to that of the turtles and other reptiles (unsegmented oviduct) in a contrast to the segmented reproductive tract of the crocodiles and the birds.
- The crocodiles though a ovulate and release all the eggs simultaneously just like a turtles and other reptiles in a contrast to the sequential ovulation of the birds, who lay one egg at a time.
Background
The new discovery a shows that are central and western in a India hold great a potential for a dinosaur fossils that may be a provide key information on a dinosaur species diversity and their nesting behavior and the reproductive biology.
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