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Letter: A simple explanation for weird baby dinosaurs?

Published 30 September 2020

From Paul Wood, Hamilton, New Zealand

You report that baby titanosaurs had a sharp horn on their snout, something that was absent in any adult fossils, but offer few possible reasons for this difference (5 September, p 20). Perhaps it was there to help them break out of their egg, just as birds use their beaks to hatch today.

Issue no. 3302 published 3 October 2020

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