Father cares for them too, bringing plants back for them to eat. Both parents look after their young for close to a year till their bones are strong enough to walk long distances with them.
Too often people focus on the giant T. rex or similar, showing them looking menacing with open mouth and lots of fangs. There was a tender nurturing dinosaurs too. As a mother, I wanted to show them too.
Evidence from fossils - and there were A LOT of this species - showed the babies at varying ages still in nests. Their bones weren't calcified and strong enough to walk with their family and other members of their group (herd?) until they were a year old! That's longer period of parental care and protection than any bird or lizard does nowadays.
Female (Maiasaura peeblesorum) or "good mother", duck-billed dinosaur with strong maternal behaviour, fussing over her older nestlings, while the father, a male Maiasaura peeblesorum is shown bringing plants back to feed their numerous hatchlings, the babies have short snouts and large eyes, scientifically ...
Too often people focus on the giant T. rex or similar, showing them looking menacing with open mouth and lots of fangs. There was a tender nurturing dinosaurs too. As a mother, I wanted to show them too.
Evidence from fossils - and there were A LOT of this species - showed the babies at varying ages still in nests. Their bones weren't calcified and strong enough to walk with their family and other members of their group (herd?) until they were a year old! That's longer period of parental care and protection than any bird or lizard does nowadays.