Heyuan is a city in the mountainous Guandong province of China that bills itself as the "Home of the Dinosaurs," and rightfully so. In 2004 the local museum was awarded a Guinness World Record for the largest collection of fossilized dinosaur eggs (10,008 at the time), and almost 17,000 egg fossils have been found there since 1996. That number just grew a tiny bit larger after workers stumbled upon 43 fossilized dinosaur eggs in the red sandstone beneath the roads they were repairing. Some measured up to 5 inches across, and 19 of them were fully intact.
Heyuan is not just a hotspot for fossilized eggs — 11 fossilized skeletons and almost 200 footprint fossils have been discovered since 2006, according to a 2008 report from China Daily....
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