South Korean Dinosaur Eggs

[smithjb@sas.upenn.edu (Joshua Smith)]

Betty Cunningham wrote:
> 
> this is a CNN custom news article. 

> Lee and other scientists said the discovery indicated that the Korean
> peninsula was one of the main breeding grounds for dinosaurs in East
> Asia during the Cretaceous Period. 
> 
        How the hell does this discovery indicate that?!  It indicates 
that there happened to be a nest site for some taxa at this locality at 
this point in the Cretaceous and that this one just happened to be under the 
right conditions to get preserved, survive the various taphonomic agents 
and persist, and then get discovered.  How does this now get extrapolated 
into the peninsula being one of the main breeding grounds for dinosaurs 
in East Asia during the Cretaceous?  



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