Articles for tag: DinoParenting, DinosaurNests, Dinosaurs, Paleontology

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A Dinosaur “Nest City”: Did Ancient Parents Build Nursery Networks?

Suhail Ahmed

  Imagine a Cretaceous floodplain humming like a hidden suburb, with dozens of cratered mounds, crushed eggshell mosaics, and juvenile tracks stitched into the mud. That is the mystery paleontologists are circling today: scattered sites that look less like isolated nests and more like organized neighborhoods. For decades, fossils hinted at care and coordination; now ...