Article: Dinosaur Nest Discovery Challenges Assumptions

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 Velociraptors and bring them to the nest for food, much as a modern osprey or eagle would do?

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