Dinosaurs who knew Dinah Shore

I know what your first thought will be, but remember, Jurassic Park didn't turn out so well. Think safety! But science, always on the lookout for something to look at, has found a perfectly preserved dinosaur egg and everyone is just over the moon about it!

Some surprised Argentinian scientists (that's a phrase I remember from a typing course in high school) found the egg on October 7. It's 70 million years old, according to the expiration date printed on the shell, and it is fossilized. The scientists call it "Mitch." 

The fossil is said not to like having fingers pointed at it.

Anyway, the "perfectly-preserved prehistoric relic" turned up near the Rio Negro in General Roca, Patagonia by a group from Argentina's Museum of Natural Sciences .

 "We've never seen anything like it, we've never seen an egg so well preserved," said one of the scientists on the expedition. Adding to the thrill, a well-preserved side of grits and sausage gravy, as yet untouched after all this time, was found next to the egg.

 

 As you have probably guessed, experts say the egg was laid by a member of the carnivorous bonapartenykus genus. As any paleontologist will tell you over and over again, that was a family of long-legged, bipedal dinosaurs that once roamed the Rio Negro Province in the late Cretaceous period.

There were also remains of some other reptiles and all sort of old mammals near the egg, so those in the know think they have stumbled on an oldtime nesting ground. 

Scientists also found the remains of other reptiles and ancient mammals near the egg, lending to the theory that the area could have been a nesting ground back in the day.

One particularly unpleasant-looking dinosaur skull was wearing a red baseball hat with the words MAKE PATAGONIA GREAT AGAIN.