Overview
- The discovery was made in Río Negro province during a field excavation by Argentine paleontologists.
- Researchers report that the find includes a full nest, not just a single egg.
- The specimen is tentatively attributed to Bonapartenykus, a small alvarezsaurid theropod.
- The egg, described as looking "hard boiled" and about the size of an ostrich embryo, is under study at the Argentinian Museum of Natural Sciences (Bernardo Rivadavia).
- Experts note that carnivorous dinosaur eggs rarely fossilize due to thin, fragile shells and emphasize that extracting usable dinosaur DNA is considered implausible.