Dinosaur eggs looked very much like birds’ eggs and were surprisingly small. Most were about the size and shape of a large potato. Their small size means that the hatchling would also have been small, and would have needed plenty of care from its parent.
What do we know about dinosaur breeding habits?
As far as we know, all dinosaurs laid eggs rather than giving birth to live young. Many of these eggs have been fossilized, but it is sometimes difficult to find out which animal produced them. Sometimes the eggs contain the remains of an unhatched baby dinosaur. Occasionally the fossil of a newly hatched baby is found near the eggs, showing which species they belong to. Dinosaur eggs were laid in clutches, like those of today’s birds. We think that dinosaurs, like birds, would have had courtship behaviour, built nests and cared for their young until they were old enough to look after themselves.
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