A pair of shelled eggs inside a female dinosaur

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5720, 2005, Pages 375-

  Sato, Tamaki ^a   Cheng, Yen Nien ^b   Wu, Xiao Chun ^a   Zelenitsky, Darla K ^c   Hsiao, Yu Fu ^d  

^a CANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d Paleowonders Fossil and Mineral Mus   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINOSAUR; EGG; EGG SHELL; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FOSSIL; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; FOSSILS; OVIDUCTS; OVIPOSITION; OVUM;

DINOSAURIA;

EID: 20244387277     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1110578     Document Type: Article

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7. We thank M. Norell and C. Mehling of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, for access to the oviraptorid egg nests and R. Holmes of the CMN for reading earlier drafts. T.S., D.K.Z., and X.-C.W. were supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Alberta Ingenuity Fund, and the CMN, respectively.