Miller Discovers a Dinosaur Egg Containing the Oldest Known Embryo
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- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Archaeology
- Subcategories: Scientists, Earth Sciences, Natural History, Geology, Geologists
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present
- Geographical Location: Utah
- Date: September, 1987
Article abstract: Miller, Hirsch, Stadtman, and Madsen discovered a fossilized dinosaur egg containing the oldest known embryo of any kind, about 150 million years old.
Summary of Event
The Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in Emery County, Utah, is the site in which more than twelve thousand unarticulated, or separated, bones of dinosaurs were found to represent seventy plus individual dinosaurs, or at least twelve genera. The massive amounts of remains found in the area can be explained by the possibility that the lowest member of the fossil-bearing beds...
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