LISBON - Archaeologists in northern Portugal said yesterday they had discovered the fossilised embryo of a meat eating dinosaur believed to date from 140 million years ago, twice the age of any such previous discovery.
Mr Philippe Taquet, director of the Paris National History Museum's Palaeontology Laboratory, told a news conference that embryo, found inside a fossil egg, was not only the world's oldest but also the first to be discovered from the Jurassic, rather than the Cretaceous, period, Mr Taquet said.