Eggs Nests And Baby Dinosaurs

Offers the very latest information on dinosaur eggs, hatchlings and babies, as well as a detailed look at dinosaur courtship, mating, nests, and physical development.

In the last two decades the study of dinosaur eggs and babies has proved a very profitable area of dinosaur research. This book is solely devoted to this topic and reviews our present state of knowledge in this area of paleontology.

Describes how different kinds of dinosaurs hatched their young from eggs and explains how scientists have studied fossilized eggs to learn about these prehistoric creatures.

Jack Horner was seven years old when he made his first dinosaur find. Later, he made his greatest discovery by uncovering more than 13 dinosaur nests filled with eggs and babies on "Egg Mountain." In The Maiasaura Nests, young readers will follow the exciting adventures of Horner as he climbs to the top of Egg Mountain in Montana to identify a new species of duck-billed dinosaurs. Full-color photographs, a map, an illustrated dinosaur timeline, and exciting narrative text will inspire budding fossil hunters.

Baby Dinosaur can see a little egg in a big nest, and a little dinosaur comes out of the egg. Then the little dinosaur's mother comes, so Baby Dinosaur and Father Dinosaur run all the way home. Connect to the nonfiction text pair, Animal Eggs.

Describes the characteristics and behavior of baby dinosaurs.

Did dinosaurs lay eggs in nests? How big were the eggs? What were the shells like? Did mother dinosaurs care for their babies? These and other questions about the birth and care of dinosaur babies are answered in this fascinating peek into the home lives of these reptiles. The simple text and exciting illustrations along with the tantalizing information will capture the interest of all young readers. Developed by literacy experts, Dinosaur Babies features controlled text with appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure for emergent readers.

And most intriguingly, what ancient catastrophe - deeply rooted more than 70 million years in the past - prevented them from hatching?"--BOOK JACKET.