A+ UNHATCHED OVIRAPTOR EGG W/ CT SCANS, DINOSAUR FOSSIL

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COLLECTOR QUALITY OVIRAPTOR MUSEUM QUALITY OVIRAPTOR EGG , 7" un-hatched fossil with POSITIVE CT Scans! F # 577 ... Cretaceous Period Nanxiang Basin, Guandong, China 2004... This auction features a magnificent fossil egg of the rarer, elongated raptor variety. The specimen is free of matrix; and since it has shell in place around the entire girth, it is most likely un-hatched. Is t a little embryo inside? Well, few have been found; however, it is an interesting possibility for this real egg. IN FACT,,,, I WAS SO INTRIGED THAT I HAD CT SCANS DONE,,, AND GUESS WHAT ???? The images clearly show that t is something in t! Remember that a CT scan is an image of a thin plane going through the fossil and is not like an x-ray which shows a 3-D silhouette. The cleaning, stabilization and restoration were done in the U.S. by a professional preparator. This egg is about 7 inches long, 3 1/2 inches wide and has a 8 inch girth; and so it is larger than most raptor eggs. It is covered with about 90 - 95% of its original shell. The Oviraptor dinosaur lived in the Late Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. These raptors were bipedal animals and were probably omnivores (ate vegetation and meat). In 1923, scientists, including R. Chapman Andrews, gave the name Oviraptor philoceratops (egg eater) to a dinosaur they found lying on top of a nest of read more

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