I was wondering the same thing. They were about to blow the site sky high with dynamite. The article didn’t mention how they went from thinking they looked like rocks to looking like fossils:
A construction team in China were shocked to discover that what they thought was a collection of "oval-shaped stones" was in fact a nest of perfectly fossilised dinosaur eggs. The group were using explosives to excavate the ground at a site in the Jiangxi province on Christmas Day when they came across the prehistoric find.
Suspecting them to be dinosaur eggs, they stopped construction in the area and contacted the police. The site was sealed off and experts from the county museum were called in to recover the find.
It went from finding what they thought were “oval-shaped stones,” and then it’s suddenly “suspecting them to be dinosaur eggs.”
With how quickly work is expected to get done (in any given field on average) and how careless people who are under that gun of meeting deadlines regardless of any issues cropping up can tend to be I think we are lucky that they were pondered over, at all, in this case. It does make me wonder how many times perfectly preserved fossils have been lost to similar things throughout history, though.
A construction team in China were shocked to discover that what they thought was a collection of "oval-shaped stones" was in fact a nest of perfectly fossilised dinosaur eggs. The group were using explosives to excavate the ground at a site in the Jiangxi province on Christmas Day when they came across the prehistoric find.
Suspecting them to be dinosaur eggs, they stopped construction in the area and contacted the police. The site was sealed off and experts from the county museum were called in to recover the find.
It went from finding what they thought were “oval-shaped stones,” and then it’s suddenly “suspecting them to be dinosaur eggs.”