AKIPRESS.COM - A rare nest of baby giant hadrosaurs has been discovered by paleontologists in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert.

The area this fossil nest was found in is known as the “Dragon’s Tomb” as it has produced a vast amount of fossils of this giant hadrosaur, Saurolophus angustirostris, since its discovery in 1947.

Scientists say the specimens were found close to fragments of eggshell and that the 'babies' were probably in the earliest stages of development.

They believe the creatures belonged to a group of Saurolophus angustirostris - a type of giant hadrosaur - and that they are all likely to be from the same nest.

Scientists described three or four perinatal specimens - or 'babies' - and two associated eggshell fragments.

They said the young dinosaurs were likely part of a nest originally located on a river sandbank.

Scientists are not sure whether the individuals were still in the eggs or had just hatched when they died, but they were dead and partly decomposed when they were buried by river sediment during the wet summer season.

Dragon's Tomb, in the Nemegt basin in the northwestern Gobi Desert, is a well-known location for finding Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossils, reports Daily Mail.