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Re: don' t think that flies



That's not evidence against piling heaps of vegetation over the nests
and walking away, is it?

It's evidence against a buried-in-sand, sea-turtle style nest; it's not
evidence against a Mallee fowl style nests, though.

Mallee fowl only walk away a few hours before hatching. Before that, they stay close, guard the nest to some extent, and do all that famous temperature regulation stuff.


A sauropod nest covered with vegetation wouldn't be very hidden, unless it was in the leaf litter of a forest, which doesn't fit the sedimentology of any known sauropod nest (AFAIK) and would also be surprising because an adult sauropod doesn't fit between the trees of a forest that's dense enough to hide a sauropod nest.