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Re: PLESIOSAUR REPRODUCTION ONCE MORE



In a message dated 98-06-29 19:27:23 EDT, Betty writes:

<<  In listening to this discussion (which I'm enjoying, at any rate), I am
 wondering if there is any egg-laying mammals in the fossil record that
 have been found with eggs?  Platypuses are river-dwelling, egg-laying
 mammals after all, so have fossil eggs or embryos been found? >>

I think that every paleomammalogist would be drooling over a fossil platypus
of ANY kind, much less eggs and embryos, given their NOTORIOUS scarcity in
fossil form. (though it has gotten somewhat better recently).

Sincerely,
Christian Kammerer