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Re: Re: "Good Mother"- or "Mommie Dearest"-lizard????



At 01:16 PM 3/11/96 -0500, th81 wrote:
>I haven't seen the Earth article yet, but Dave Unwin, at the 199(3?) SVP
>meeting, presented data showing that the _Maiasaura_ "hatchlings" fit
>comfortably within the volume of the eggs, and may indeed be embryos.  If
>this is true, the poorly formed limb joints would not indicate altriciality
>per se, since all organisms tend to be a bit "altricial" as embryos...

   How did Dr. Unwin account for the fact that the eggsshells were a crushed
into little pieces?

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