Giant dinosaurs used the planet to warm their eggs
Dinosaurs were smarter than you might think – they used the heat from geysers and volcanoes to warm their eggs. Ed Yong explains how scientists figured out dinosaurs’ nest heating systems. At Argentina’s Sanagasta Geological Park, there is a volcanic nursery for giants. It’s a site that is strewn with the fossilised eggs of giant…
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Ed Yong - Discover
Extinction of the Old, Evolution of the New: What really happened to the dinosaurs?
In the following essay, Greg Laden muses on the glacial pace it takes for geological theories to be widely accepted and the difficulty of pinpointing exactly when the dinosaurs went extinct. I refer, of course to the realization that a giant object from outer space can land on the earth with catastrophic consequences, perhaps causing…
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