China yields another extraordinary fossil

[Darwin_s_Finch]

This time, it’s a pterosaur embryo:

The specimen was unearthed in shale in Jingangshan in western Liaoning, northeastern China, a location that has yielded almost uncountable dinosaur treasures.

Its folded wings, tucked inside the egg, give it a wingspan of 27 centimetres (11 inches).

Awww…doesn’t it sound cute?

The creature “was probably enjoying its last few days in the egg before hatching out to walk on the Early Cretaceous earth” before it was smothered, possibly by a volcanic eruption, they add lyrically.