A team of researchers said Tuesday it has discovered the world’s smallest dinosaur egg fossil, measuring about 4.5 cm by 2 cm, in western Japan.
The fossil of the egg, estimated to have weighed only about 10 grams more than 100 million years ago, was found in a stratum dating back to the early Cretaceous Period in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, according to the team.
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