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Article: DINOSAUR DISCOVERY CHALLENGES NESTING THEORY.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 4, 1994
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Byline: BOYCE RENSBERGER Washington Post
WASHINGTON The slim book on dinosaur behavior may have to be rewritten if paleontologists can figure out what they say is a most peculiar discovery. In Mongolia's Gobi Desert, they have found a preserved nest containing a grapefruit-sized egg with the first known embryo of a meat-eating dinosaur and, among eggshell fragments in the same nest, two tiny skulls probably from embryos or newborns of a very different species of predatory dinosaur that may be velociraptor.
How, the scientists want to know, did the two species get into the same nest?
Did a parent of the unhatched embryo kill two baby ...