Bird-Like, Feathered Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs Like Chickens
Feathered dinosaurs that walked on two legs and had parrot-like beaks shared another characteristic with modern birds—they brooded clutches of eggs at a temperature similar to chickens. Ostrich-sized oviraptors, ancestors to birds, sat on their eggs to incubate them at 35 to 40 degrees Celsius (95 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit)—a range comparable with modern hens … Read more