Re: Oviphagus armadillos

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

I hadn't realised Egg Mountain was sand.  I thought it was gravel.

-Betty Cunningham


John Bois wrote:
> To the extent that non-avian dinosaurs used sand, tunnels were more
> unlikely (i.e., more likely to collapse).  For me, no matter how the eggs
> are reached, the ability to crack them in a smallish mammal is what
> counts, what causes the greatest incredulity.  And yet here is hard
> evidence!  One question I didn't ask the author of the paper is whether or
> not he/she would expect the evidence to fossilize.