Bird-like Troodon dinosaurs shared communal nests about 75 million years ago

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Bird-like Troodon dinosaurs shared communal nests about 75 million years ago
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Researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany led this study.possessed several bird-like characteristics, including light and hollow bones, two legs, and fully developed feathery wings. However, because these extinct creatures were so massive, they couldn't fly. Moreover, Troodon females laid asymmetric eggs similar to modern birds rather than round reptile eggs.

Using this technique, they could determine the temperatures and speed at which the eggs were produced. Tagliavento added, “Troodon formed its eggs in a way more comparable to modern reptiles, and it implies that its reproductive system was still constituted of two ovaries.”

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