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Daddy Daycare
Maniraptoran nests reported in 2008 in the journalSciencesuggests these theropods may have done daycare pappa style . Shown here , an exemplification of aTroodondad take in over an egg - filled nest . [ show full storey ]
Big Mama
Although scientists had discovered what they thought wereProtoceratopsnests since the 1920s , open up the ball revealed they actually belonged to anOviraptor , a heart and soul - eat on dinosaur suspect to have lurked around these eggs to eat them . Shown here , the fossil remains of a nestingOviraptor , nickname " Big Mama , " complete with eggs .
The mother dinosaur of the prosauropodMassospondyluswere much larger than their fiddling infants . Shown here , the caput of aMassospondylusnicknamed Big Mama by the scientist with an fertilized egg of the same metal money .
