Since the very first Maiasaur discovery
in Montana, a substantial amount of information has been
deciphered about dinosaur nesting behaviour. They have been
described as caring parents, feeding their nest bound young
as well as social animals living in herds of thousands. The
most important discovery of all is perhaps the change in our
attitude toward dinosaurs.
" I think it's undeniable that the
dinosaurs weren't just big lizards. They weren't mammals or
birds, either,
They were dinosaurs, different from
all living creatures in many ways, some of which we know
about and some of which we'll probably never know about. The
picture we have of dinosaurs will always have its blank
spots, places where we have to guess to fill in an image,
the way we sometimes guess when we reconstruct
skeletons."
John
R. Horner
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