Page 33 - Everything You Know About Dinosaurs is Wrong

MAIASAURA was a large duck-billed dinosaur that we know built mounds with lots of other mothers to keep their eggs and babies in. There are even fossils that suggest that they returned year after year to use the same spot as a nursery.
A lot of dinosaurs, like TIANYURAPTOR and SERIKORNIS, had feathers but could not fly. Perhaps many of them used their feathers like CITIPATI, to cover eggs and keep them at the right temperature.
A fossil of CITIPATI, frozen in time, shows us how some dinosaurs sat on a lot of eggs, in a similar way to birds sitting on their eggs before they hatch. Although its spindly arms would not have protected them very well, the feathers that spanned over them would have.
Palaeontologists now think that this fossil of CITIPATI (which had been nicknamed ‘Big Mama’) was a male, and that he was actually babysitting many mothers’ eggs, not just one.
DIno fact!
In 2020, palaeontologists made the amazing discovery that most dinosaur eggs were soft and only later dinosaurs evolved hard-shelled, bird-like eggs. Because soft shells wouldn't have fossilised very well, that could explain why palaeontologists haven't found very many dinosaur eggs.
Although many dinosaurs might have covered their eggs with earth and left the hatchlings to fend for themselves, these amazing fossils show that at least some dinosaur species stuck around to look after and bring up their kids. Not SO mean, after all!
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