Baby sauropod dinosaurs did not require parental care
Baby sauropod dinosaurs did not require parental care
Babies of long-necked sauropod dinosaurs hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball, and did not need parental care, a study of newly discovered fossil of a baby titanosaurian sauropod has found.
By: PTI | Published: April 30, 2016 2:29 PM
Babies of long-necked sauropod dinosaurs hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball, and did not need parental care, a study of newly discovered fossil of a baby titanosaurian sauropod has found.
The research sheds the first light on the life of a young Rapetosaurus, a titanosaurian sauropod buried in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.
Sauropod dinosaurs include the largest animals ever to walk on land, but they hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball, researchers said.
The baby behemoths were active, capable of a wider array of manoeuvres than adult members of their species, and did not need parental care after hatching, they said.
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