Re: eggs with thin shells

[NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk>]

One thing that worries me is how the eggs are laid in the first place.  If 
the eggs are so thin it is likely that the parent would have to squat to 
lay (because if it were dropped from any height, it would break!).  If 
the dinosaur had to squat, it is difficult for it to produce regular lines 
of eggs without the tail breaking them.  Even more difficult for a 
sauropod, I imagine :-)  I believe they may have dug a hole, or 
trench?, an squated over it to lay the eggs.  I'm just thinking allowed 
here, but I have trouble imagining how the eggs are physically laid.

Neil


Neil Clark
Curator of Palaeontology
Hunterian Museum
University of Glasgow
email: NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk

Mountains are found in erogenous zones.
(Geological Howlers - ed. WDI Rolfe)