People in the city of Heyuan in Guangdong province have been found to be illicitly excavating dinosaur fossils and fossilized eggs as they can bring in large profits, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily. Police in China are busy confiscating these eggs from smugglers, criminals, and even villagers. Although it is not yet known how many eggs have been found. The number of eggs found in not clear yet, if it is 213 or 231. The egg that has been confiscated belongs to different periods and are of different species. The skeleton of dinosaur was identified as a Psittacosaurus, said Xinhua news agency quoting officials. These dinosaurs were plant eaters and grew about two meters in length. However, it is alleged that they were mostly stolen by local villagers before researchers and scientists arrived.

While it may sound unusual to some, the discovery of dinosaur eggs in China is not abnormal.

This is not first such case, many such instances have occurred before wherein dinosaur eggs were found in China. Chinese police also recovered a dinosaur skeleton also.

Some early documents reveal that the first “scientifically documented” dinosaur eggs were discovered in 1859 in southern France. However, these fossils that include dinosaur’s eggs are a much-sought entity and fetch a very high price in the black market. These fossils were uncovered by a research group from the American Museum of Natural History. When Poech found these eggs, he thought them to be the eggs laid by some giant bird. Since that time, several nesting sites have been found all across the world.