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...many years the evidence of such motherly love applied only to peaceful, plant-eating dinosaurs. Now a dramatic discovery announced in the current Science suggests that the carnivores had a nesting instinct as well. Working with a U.S.-Mongolian team in the remote Gobi Desert, paleontologist Mark Norell of New York City's American Museum of Natural History found the nearly complete skeleton of a predatory-dinosaur embryo, the first ever discovered, fossilized just as it was about to hatch during the Cretaceous period, more than 70 million years ago. The embryo and its potato-size egg, found...
...start with, says Norell, the eggs he found are identical to eggs uncovered in 1923, also in the Gobi, by the famed fossil hunter Roy Chapman Andrews. Most of the bones in the area Andrews explored belonged to a vegetarian dinosaur called Protoceratops, so Andrews thought the eggs did too. Since a predator's remains were found lying on top of one clutch of eggs, scientists assumed that it had died in the act of eating them and named it Oviraptor, or egg stealer. But Norell's discovery makes it clear that the unfairly maligned "thief" was more likely...
Death and extinction are supposed to tie in with the recurring and problematic dinosaur motif. While the others are doomed dinosaurs. Todd has set himself apart, a Pterodactyl among lizards destined for a different fate. He is slated to survive as something eternal; vigilance, vengeance, or perhaps something darker...
...school on teaching quality, program content and career placement. According to the survey, Harvard graduates were dissatisfied with the slow pace of curricular reform and the high fees associated with attending the school. Graduates also deplored the administration's lack of responsiveness. One 1994 graduate branded HBS an "archaic dinosaur...
...school's administration was judged to be the least responsive of any Top 20 school. One 1994 graduate called Harvard an "archaic dinosaur...