How does a one-tonne dino hatch its eggs? Carefully
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Most dinosaurs buried their eggs and hoped for the best, but some species - including a few hefty ones - built nests and pampered unhatched offspring much as birds do today, researchers reported Wednesday.
Which raises an intriguing question: How did creatures nearly as heavy as a hippo brood eggs without squashing them?
"Large species may have not sat directly on their eggs," explained Kohei Tanaka, a researcher at Nagoya University Museum and lead author of a study in Biology Letters that details the incubation strategy of feathered carnivores called oviraptorosaurs.
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