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The construction workers were reportedly preparing to dig up the site of a school in the southeast Chinese province of Jiangxi when they made the stunning find.

The hoard consists of 20 oval-shaped eggs made of 2mm-thick black shell, which experts say date back to at least the Cretaceous period.

According to local reports, the building site was immediately shut down while scientists recovered the eggs.

Photos taken show they appear to be intact – although further examinations have yet to be made.

(Image: CHINA NEWS SERVICE) (Image: CHINA NEWS SERVICE)

It means the region in China which they were found was once home to at least 20 separate species of dinosaur.

Previous discoveries of perfectly-preserved eggs like these have raised hopes of bringing the prehistoric beasts back to life – in something reminiscent of the blockbuster Jurassic Park films.

Just weeks ago, a 99 million-year-old tick holding onto a feather of a dinosaur was found – something that indicates the parasite fed on the blood of dinosaurs.

The find is so incredible because it is incredibly rare to find a parasite with its host and provides the clearest evidence yet that ticks dined on dino blood.

And the blood from the tick could theoretically be used to bring back the extinct creatures.

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Science expert and author Helen Pilcher claimed species can be brought back from extinction.

In her book “Bring Back the King: The New Science of De-extinction”, Pilcher wrote: “What if, many millions of years ago, there had been a hungry mosquito that dined on a dinosaur then became trapped in amber, with its last supper still inside its stomach.

“If one could recover a dinosaur blood cell from inside that mosquito and then transplant it into an egg that had had its own DNA removed [it is possible to] grow a dinosaur.

“A modern living dinosaur is not a fantasy.”