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| Tango01 | 15 Jun 2014 10:32 p.m. PST |
…her eggs in one basket. "A team of scientists have suggested reasons why the largest dinosaurs ever to have walked the Earth produced smaller eggs than might be expected. One of the defining characteristics of the dinosaurs was their vast size, and the sauropods – a suborder of dinosaurs which includes the famous Diplodocus – were the largest of all. Yet scientists have been puzzled at the relatively small size of sauropod eggs. Both individual egg size and clutch size are smaller than might be expected for such enormous creatures, relative to modern egg-laying animals…"
Full article here
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Armand |
rvandusen  | 16 Jun 2014 4:46 a.m. PST |
Fascinating. There have been a few fossil finds where eggs have show sings of being raided by predators. There is one find in particular from India where a large snake died in the act of constricting a sauropod hatchling. |
| Tango01 | 16 Jun 2014 10:57 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed the article my friend. Amicalement
Armand |
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considers the Battle of Delium, 424 B.C.
