# China yields another extraordinary fossil

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**Created:** [June 11, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-yields-another-extraordinary-fossil/249781 "2004-06-11T04:30:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-yields-another-extraordinary-fossil/249781/1 "2004-06-11T04:30:03Z")

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This time, it’s a [pterosaur embryo](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&ncid=1540&e=2&u=/afp/20040609/sc_afp/science_palaeontology_040609183948):

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> The specimen was unearthed in shale in Jingangshan in western Liaoning, northeastern China, a location that has yielded almost uncountable dinosaur treasures.
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> Its folded wings, tucked inside the egg, give it a wingspan of 27 centimetres (11 inches).

Awww…doesn’t it sound cute?

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> 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.