Good mother dinos

[Martin Adamson <MARTIN@srv0.ems.edinburgh.ac.uk>]

Here is a question that was asked recently on another list - the Skeptic's 
list to be precise.  I thought this would be a good place to get an 
answer.

Thanks

Martin

> 1) How can you tell from fossilized bones whether any particular
> species of dinosaur was a "good mother" or cared for its young?
> Dinosaurs didn't suckle their young (since I believe that dinosaurs
> didn't have nipples but I'm open to correction here) but they may have
> fed them, in the same way that birds feed their insatiable chicks today.
> Or they may have buggered off and left them to fend for themselves as
> many reptiles, fish, insects, etc. do today. What evidence from fossils
> can allow us to make any inference one way or the other here?