By- Shivanshi Srivastava
Researchers in China have discovered a previously unknown dinosaur species alongside dozens of its unhatched eggs.
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) discovered the fossils representing the three adults of the new species.
The species, believed to have lived around 190 million years ago during the Jurassic period (201 million to 145 million years ago).
The fossils were excavated in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
The species known as Qianlong shouhu, belongs to a group of dinosaurs known as sauropodomorphs.
These dinosaurs could grow to colossal sizes and they walked on four legs, had very long necks, long tails, small heads and thick legs.
Qianlong shouhu was a medium-sized sauropodomorph that measured roughly 20 feet in length and weighed 1 ton.
The eggs found were semirigid, which challenges existing ideas about the nature of the earliest dinosaur eggs.
The discovery may represent the earliest known fossil record of adult dinosaurs and their associated eggs, shedding light on their reproductive strategies.