China: Going for a walk, stumbling across a 66 million year old dinosaur egg

4 students accidentally discovered 6 dinosaur eggs 66 million years ago when going out in rural areas of Jiangxi province, southern China.

According to Mirror, the video shows students finding dinosaur eggs, which at first glance look like ordinary stones, surrounded by thick mud.

The group of students brought the eggs to a local museum to verify. The museum then contacted an expert from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dinosaur eggs at first glance look like rocks.

'Strange stones' were later identified as fossil dinosaur eggs , dating from the Ky Phan Trang, period 145 million years - 66 million years ago.

Fossil dinosaur eggs are currently stored at the local museum.

Jiangxi Province , China, has been the site of a series of dinosaur fossils over the years. It is also called the 'home of the dinosaurs'.

Many dinosaurs live in the Cretaceous Century, including the notorious tyrannosaurus dinosaurs, triceratop 3 dinosaurs and dinosaur velociraptor.

On April 15, 2010, a dinosaur egg was found in Jiangxi Province in a construction site.

Seven years later, a basket of intact dinosaur eggs were found in a construction site, where a new school was built. An estimated 30 eggs are found dating back 130 million years.

Dinosaur eggs even remain intact after workers blow up large blocks of rock during excavation.

According to the researchers, Shaanxi province is one of the most active places on dinosaurs on Earth.

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