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The Thing

June 24 , 2020 1621 days 944 0
  • In 2011, on the Seymour Island of Antarctica, a group of scientists from Chile discovered a fossil (68 million years old egg).
  • The fossil, since then was kept at a museum in Chile and was named ‘The Thing’.
  • “The Thing’ was the second-largest egg in terms of size (29 by 20 centimeters)
  • It is the second largest to the Madagascan Elephant Bird (extinct) egg and also the largest soft-shelled egg on record.

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