Re: eggs with thin shells

[Crpntr@ix.netcom.com (Kenneth Carpenter)]

P.L. Unger wrote:


>- is it possible that the young dinosaur could gestate inside a shell
>inside the mother's body - so the mother would lay the egg a short time
>before the  egg was due to hatch.
>
>


An interesting idea, but the eggs are found paired in the ground, not 
associated with any dinosaur skeleton as your hypothesis would require. 
Also, the female would be carrying around 10-25% her own body mass as 
embryos.  Not exactly what a predator would want to do.


Kenneth Carpenter