Missing link between dinosaur nests and bird nests

[sauroid]

The links between dinosaurs and birds keep getting stronger: skeletal structures, feathers—and now nests.

http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2015/11/missing-link-between-dinosaur-nests-and-bird-nests

[alexeratops]

Interesting. This is also more proof that Oviraptor didn't steal eggs... unless it dug.

[Newt]

Hmm. I wonder if they looked at the eggs of megapodes (birds that incubate their eggs with rotting vegetation)?

[SBell]

The links between dinosaurs and birds keep getting stronger: skeletal structures, feathers—and now nests.

http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2015/11/missing-link-between-dinosaur-nests-and-bird-nests

Like many topics in science, it isn't really in doubt, and hasn't been for a while--except for stubborn holdouts that still can't actually find satisfactory contrary evidence.

Still, always good to have extra lines of support!

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Sbell summed up my reaction when I read this as well.....nests, and that they were used in most types of dinosaur reproduction methods is really not news in itself and has not been anything seriously in question .
Regarding the megapodes question, it is addressed in Ken Carpenter's book...."Eggs Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs"  I consider that book the definitive for information on the topic.
   This does not eliminate the possibility Oviraptors stole eggs, and without digging. Often the eggs would have to be uncovered to allow them to cool, then recovered if the temperature began dropping. It is also possible that some species used no vegetation to cover their nests, as the author states about Oviraptors themselves within the article.....it just means Oviraptors would have been stealing each other's eggs rather than from Protoceratops, without digging.

[HD-man]

The links between dinosaurs and birds keep getting stronger: skeletal structures, feathers—and now nests.

http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2015/11/missing-link-between-dinosaur-nests-and-bird-nests

More of Csotonyi's paleoart: https://royaltyrrellmuseum.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/fossilized-eggshells-provide-insight-into-the-evolution-of-nesting/

[Dinoguy2]

The links between dinosaurs and birds keep getting stronger: skeletal structures, feathers—and now nests.

http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2015/11/missing-link-between-dinosaur-nests-and-bird-nests

Like many topics in science, it isn't really in doubt, and hasn't been for a while--except for stubborn holdouts that still can't actually find satisfactory contrary evidence.

Still, always good to have extra lines of support!

Yeah, and actually the fact that this paper shows everything but maniraptorans buried their eggs will probably be used by BAND as more evidence AGAINST the dino-bird link, because BAND already thinks maniraptorans are birds, not dinosaurs.