
Communal nesting in bird-like dinosaur
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The Role of Temperature in the Evolution of Eggshells
The temperature of mineralization is important because it becomes a proxy for the temperature of the body. In our case, targeting trudon, we found three actions that show a temperature of 42 degrees Celsius. At the same time, we also observed one action that showed temperature of 30 degrees Celsius. And these suggested us that probably these trudon have a sort of eterodermi behavior.
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