Nest Full of Baby Dinosaurs Discovered

Discovery News via Fox ^ | November 16, 2011 | Jennifer Viegas

[ApplegateRanch]

Ever seen a “turtle boil”, when the hatchlings dig out of the buried nest? There are often a few that don't make it out.

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.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[Tax-chick]

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.”

[Pecos]

I saw the headline, and expected the enviro-wackos to have declared them an endagered species.

[wildbill]

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.