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Pu and colleagues noted that the preserved eggs represent only a small area of what would have been the original nest. The generic name, Beibeilong, is derived from the pinyin transliteration for the Chinese 贝贝 (bèibei) and the word 龙 (lóng), meaning "baby dragon".
A young Komodo dragon, Varanus komodoensis, produced through parthenogenesis. Komodo dragons can produce offspring both through sexual reproduction and parthenogenesis. Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction in which the embryo develops directly from an egg without need for fertilization.
The zoo has two adult female Komodo dragons, one of which laid about 17 eggs on 19–20 May 2007. Only two eggs were incubated and hatched due to space issues; the first hatched on 31 January 2008, while the second hatched on 1 February. Both hatchlings were males. [75] [76]
Egg measures less than 30mm long
Six small non-avian dinosaur eggs, no bigger than grapes, were discovered during a field study in Ganzhou, China, in 2021. These eggs now mark the smallest-ever found in the world.
Qianlong (meaning "Guizhou Province dragon") is an extinct genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Ziliujing Formation of China. The genus contains a single species, Q. shouhu, known from partial skeletons of three mature individuals, associated with several eggs, some of which contain embryos.
The spermatophore sticks to her and the sperm cells swim inside her cloaca, where they attempt to fertilize her eggs. The courtship ritual can be repeated several times over a couple of hours. [39] The female lays up to 70 eggs, each about 12 millimetres (0.5 in) in diameter, and places them between rocks, where they remain under her protection ...
A photo shows these black and white eggs. The new species has only been found around the Serra da Namba mountains between elevations of about 5,700 feet and about 6,000 feet, according to the study.