To Researchers' Surprise, This Giant Dinosaur Laid Eggs in a Cold Climate
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Highest Latitude Sauropod Nests Ever Found Suggest They Used Rotting Vegetation To Keep Their Babies Warm In Cold Environments
“If titanosaurs brooded like birds, the nest would basically have turned into one giant omelette,” study author Darla Zelenitsky told IFLScience.
An international team of paleontologists found in southern Argentina fragments of eggshells that belonged to titanosaurus, one of the largest groups of dinosaurs that inhabited the Earth. The finding occurred in the Chorrillo Formation, in the province of Santa Cruz, and allowed us to know how these huge animals could reproduce [...]
Cooling brood in the deep south: Fossil eggshells from Patagonia show that Titanosaurians nested much closer to the South Pole shortly before the end of the Cretaceous period than previously safely evidenced. The extremely porous shells speak for completely covered eggs. As a heat source, the microbial decomposition of plant material in a hilly nest is particularly questionable. Tsukuba (Japan). Dinosaur eggs from high latitudes [...] The articl…
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