Posted on 11/20/2011 6:29:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Sometimes, the nest hatches; but, for what ever reason, is too deep for any to make it to the surface.
In either case, under the right conditions, they could be preserved in a similar tableau.
Are we certain that these guys were surface nesters, and not egg buriers? A buried nest would make it harder for the egg eaters to raid it.
:’)
I just read something similar in a book about Pterosaurs I was reading to my son last night - no adults were found at the site, presumably because they could fly away as the flash-flood hit, but the non-flying young were “rapidly overwhelmed and entombed.”
I saw the headline, and expected the enviro-wackos to have declared them an endagered species.
Gee, maybe they starved after their doting mama, one of the so-called “fighting dinosaurs”, died nearby while protecting the nest.
I get so choked up—(sob)—over the deaths of little ‘bambis’ of a species inimical to the evolution of Man into the dominant form of animal life on our planet.
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