THE big plant-eating dinosaurs had large families, but few of their offspring
are likely to have reached adulthood. This month Argentine palaeontologists
announced that they had found thousands of eggs in hundreds of nests in
Patagonia. Palaeontologist Rodolfo Coria of the Carmen Funes Museum in
Neuquén, Argentina says it is “the biggest nesting site of dinosaur eggs
ever found”.
Each nest contains 15 to 30 round grapefruit-sized eggs containing bones of
titanosaurs, which could weigh 15 tonnes when grown. The dinosaurs had communal
nesting sites like some modern birds, says Coria.
Ken Carpenter of the Denver Museum of Natural…
