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viviparity



On Mon, 5 Jun 1995 KelMHDino@aol.com wrote:

> >>Does  anyone know whether mosasaurids gave birth to live young >>(other
> lizards do), or came ashore like turtles
> 
> My sources say neither.  Traditionally, people thought mosasaurs might have
> done the turtle in the sand THANG, but I'm told it's leaning more and more
> toward eggs in the shallows...

With oxygen diffusing from the water across the extraembryonic membranes?  
The eggs must have been very small.
                                                                Bill Adlam