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How
was it made?
Bringing it back to life
This model recreates the fossilized scene
above, showing the
Oviraptor
shielding her
eggs.
Oviraptors
had curious-looking beaked
snouts. They may have raided other nests for
food for themselves and their young.
Egg care?
Did dinosaurs sit on
their eggs, like birds today? Some did; this
Oviraptor
died and was fossilized sitting on
her eggs some 80 million years ago.
Egg
I’m making a break for it!
A tiny dinosaur hatchling breaks out of its egg
casing. While some dinosaurs were probably
ready to look after themselves after
hatching, others would have depended on
parental help for food and protection.
This is a model of a
Parasaurolophus
hatchling.
Nest is dug out
of sand or earth.
Oviraptor
Oviraptor
Fossilized
dinosaur egg
Eggstraordinary eggs
No. They had hard, brittle shells, like the eggs of birds.
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