Episode 379: “Baby Yingliang” – Dinosaur Embryo Discovery
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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In late December, the news of “Baby Yingliang”, an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo, was reported in the journal iScience. The oviraptorosaur embryo had been acquired in 2000, but ended up in storage, until recently when museum staff identified the eggs and the embryo hidden within one of them. Newt’s guest is Dr. Stephen Brusatte, Chair of Paleontology and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh.
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| 0:35.0 | On this episode of Newt's World in late December, the news of baby Yeng Liang and exquisitely |
| 0:42.0 | preserved dinosaur embryo was reported in the journal iScience and it's an extraordinary |
| 0:47.6 | story. The over-raptor-assaur dinosaur embryo had been acquired in 2000 by Lang Liu, the director |
| 0:55.2 | of a company called Yeng Liang Group, who suspected it might contain egg fossils. But it then |
| 1:02.0 | ended up in storage, largely forgotten about until 10 years later, when museum staff during |
| 1:07.8 | the construction of Yeng Liang's Stone Nature History Museum sorted through the boxes and |
| 1:13.8 | on earth the fossils. The museum staff identified several dinosaur eggs, but the embryo hidden |
| 1:20.4 | within one of them, which they named baby Yeng Liang, was so well preserved and showed a |
| 1:27.2 | tucking position just before hatching. I personally always been fascinated by dinosaurs and I'm |
| 1:33.0 | really excited by the baby Yeng Liang discovery. I wanted to have someone on the podcast who |
| 1:39.0 | helped co-auth of the study on baby Yeng Liang and who was an expert in his field. So I'm |
| 1:45.2 | really pleased to welcome my guest, Dr. Stephen Brusat, chair of paleontology and evolution in the |
| 1:51.8 | School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. |
| 2:08.3 | Steve, I want to thank you for joining me to discuss this important discovery. I've been a fan |
| 2:13.3 | of yours ever since I read your book a few years ago, The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs, the new |
| 2:18.6 | history of their lost world. It's a fantastic book, which I highly recommend everyone. |
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