The only explanation for that is they must have been fed by the mother. That would be oldest evidence of parental care in the fossil record. -Robert Reisz

 

The only explanation for that is they must have been fed by the mother. That would be oldest evidence of parental care in the fossil record.


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This is much more direct evidence of parental care, and it's 100 million years older than other findings suggesting dinosaurs acted this way.

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So we are suggesting this was a relatively helpless little hatchling.

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When somebody slammed a door in the building, my technician who preparing this felt that. -Robert Reisz
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Most dinosaur embryos are from the Cretaceous period (146 to 65 million years ago).

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The only explanation for that is they must have been fed by the mother. That would be oldest evidence of parental care in the fossil record.

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We are looking at the very beginning of dinosaur evolution. -Robert Reisz
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These animals do not have any teeth, and since they are ready to hatch, that is strange.

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