‘Baby Louie’ dinosaur identified as a new species
Famous embryo fossil can add Beibeilong sinensis to its name
By
Ashley Yeager
4:00pm, May 9, 2017
A fossil dinosaur embryo known as “Baby Louie” has a new name. It belongs to a newly identified species of dinosaur called Beibeilong sinensis, researchers report May 9 in Nature Communications.
In the 1980s and 1990s, farmers found thousands of fossilized dinosaur eggs in the rocks of Henan Province in China and sold them overseas. It turned out that one chunk of rock, purchased by a company that sells museum-quality fossils and rock specimens, held not only eggs but also an embryonic dinosaur skeleton. It was dubbed “Baby Louie,” after a National Geographic photographer whose images of it appeared in a cover story for the magazine.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/baby-louie-dinosaur-identified-new-species?mode=topic&context=76
