The teeth are often described as “pencil-like,” with “…straight margins
that gradually taper towards the crown’s apex.”4[4] Titanosaurs are one
of the three species of sauropods with similar teeth.5[5] The location
and time period also indicate that these are titanosaur eggs, they were
“[t]he only sauropods dinosaurs alive at the end of the Cretaceous
period…” with this specific tooth description.6[6] After using the
evidence to help identify the eggs, scientists began to explore the
unique embryos. The remarkable preservation not only led to new
theories, but also answered a few lingering debates in the science
world.
Based on their findings, Dingus and Chiappe set up a
descriptive scene of the sauropods laying their eggs. On a hot day,
herds of sauropods gather to lay their eggs, “In a few weeks, barring
freak floods and raids by predators…[the] eggs would begin to rock and
their inhabitants to stretch and break loose…toothed and ready to fend
for themselves.”7[7] Up until now, scientists debated whether sauropods
laid eggs or gave birth to live young. Now scientists know that they
laid eggs and that they developed teeth before hatching. Furthermore,
not only did sauropods come together to nest, the various points in the
sediments in which the eggs were laid prove that these dinosaurs
continuously came back to this particular spot to deposit eggs. Also,
the colorful dinosaurs sauntering across movie screens can only be
speculation