Fossil Forensics Reveals How Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs

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Fossil Forensics Reveals How Wasps Populated Rotting Dinosaur Eggs

 

This is a side view of egg cocoons and fractured egg shell. Scale bar = 5 cm in both cases. (Credit: Jorge Genise)

 

 

ScienceDaily (July 15, 2011) — Exceptionally preserved fossils of insect cocoons have allowed researchers in Argentina to describe how wasps played an important role in food webs devoted to consuming rotting dinosaur eggs. The research is published in the scientific journal Palaeontology.

 

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