This discovery shows the diversity and characteristics of life of one of the largest animals of the Cretaceous period.
Scientists from the University of Delhi during excavations in India discovered 256 fossilized dinosaur eggs in 92 nests. This is reported by PLOS One.
The eggs belonged to titanosaurs, the largest herbivores that lived during the Cretaceous period. The animals reached a length of more than ten meters.
It is noted that paleontologists have identified eggs belonging to six different titanosaur species. This accounts for the great diversity of dinosaurs in the Indian subcontinent.
Thus, the search helped scientists obtain new data on the reproductive habits of giant herbivores. For example, that they dug shallow egg pits like modern crocodiles, and having multiple nests in the same area suggests that these dinosaurs were colonial nesters, like many modern birds. Having created a masonry, the mother, most likely, left him. The cubs, which were born, also moved from the place – scientists made this conclusion because they found very few remains of small dinosaurs.
It was previously reported that the remains of the world’s largest Jurassic pterosaur with a wingspan of about 2.5 m were discovered in Scotland.
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