Police have found a dinosaur skeleton and 213 dinosaur eggs hidden under stairs in a home in southern China.

The astonishing discovery was made in a village home after fossils went missing from a construction site in the Guangdong province.

The astonishing stash was discovered at a village home in southern China (Heyuan Police)

The South China Morning Post reports that the fossilised eggs were found at a construction site in late June and early July. However, it is alleged that they were mostly stolen by local villagers before researchers and scientists arrived.

Heyuan goes by the nickname ‘home of dinosaurs’ due to the number of egg and fossil discoveries which have been made in the area in recent decades.

213 dinosaur eggs were found alongside the fossil (Heyuan Police)

The skeleton has been identified as a small plant-eating dinosaur called a Psittacosaurus.