Dwarf titanosaur eggs and embryos found

Adam Khor · 09-03-2012 06:39PM #1

It seems that the little longnecks in Hateg Island were laying less eggs (an average of four per clutch) than their larger mainland relatives, and that they too nested in "colonies" or used communal nesting grounds.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0032051

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Galvasean · 09-03-2012 06:43PM

The dodo did something similar (in relation to reduced egg numbers), laying just one egg per mating cycle.
Hmm, I wonder did the dwarf titanosaurs assign a 'guard parent' like some crocodilians that nest communally do today?

Adam Khor · 09-03-2012 06:44PM

Galvasean wrote: »

The dodo did something similar (in relation to reduced egg numbers), laying just one egg per mating cycle.
Hmm, I wonder did the dwarf titanosaurs assign a 'guard parent' like some crocodilians that nest communally do today?

That's new for me. :O My turn to ask for links

Galvasean · 09-03-2012 06:51PM

Adam Khor wrote: »

That's new for me. :O My turn to ask for links

It was in Life In Cold Blood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRUC5iTXqpk

40:17 and onward.

Adam Khor · 09-03-2012 07:00PM

Ooooh yes I remember seeing that once

I had totally forgotten- for some reason I was thinking of crocodiles, trying to remember a case of them guarding other's young, and never thought of caimans.

Dwarf titanosaur eggs and embryos found

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