Argentine scientists discover Dinosaur eggs

Argentine scientists announced on Wednesday that they had discovered the bones and dinosaur eggs of a new 70-million year old dinosaur that resembled flightless birds.The paleontologists said they expect the eggs to provide them with more information about this new species, the Bonapartenykus ultimus dinosaur that was a member of the small, long-legged, fast-moving Alvarezsaurid dinosaur family.The researchers believe the eggs were likely fertilized and contained highly-developed embryos. Some of the eggs were likely inside the mother dinosaur when she died and other eggs were near her.Although the link to modern-day birds has been disputed in the past, palaeontologist Fernando Novas said the current batch of bones bares resemblance to the skeleton of the Nandu, a flightless rhea native to Patagonia.The work was led by Novas and fellow Argentine researchers, Federico Agnolin and Jaime Powell.The dinosaurs species was first discovered by Powell and later named Bonapartenykus ultimus, after Dr. Joseph Bonaparte who discovered the first Alvarezsaurid in the early 1990s.The eggs are now being analysed with powerful microscopes although some showed traces of fungus damage.The dinosaur is believed to have been about 8.5-feet (2.6 meters) long, lived in Gondwana, the most southernmost of the two supercontinents at the time. Today, that land is part of Rio Negro province in Argentina.