A rock collected in 1965 by a then high school student in the city of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, part of the Chugoku region of western Japan, has been confirmed to be a dinosaur egg fossil, the city and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum said Monday.
A rock collected in 1965 by a then high school student in the city of Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, part of the Chugoku region of western Japan, has been confirmed to be a dinosaur egg fossil, the city and the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum said Monday.
Previously, fossils of eight types of dinosaur eggs have been discovered in Japan, in the prefectures of Fukui, Gifu and Hyogo.
The fossilized egg confirmed this time is different from the eight types, and it is highly likely to be an egg laid by a bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, or theropod, the city and the museum said.
