Re: More on the Massospondylus embryos

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

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From: "Jura" <pristichampsus@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 4:15 AM

> > "These animals do not have any teeth, and since they
> > are ready to hatch, that is strange," said Robert
> > Reisz of the University of Toronto at Mississauga in
> > Canada, who led the study.
> >
> > "The only explanation for that is they must have
> > been fed by the mother. That would be oldest
> > evidence of parental care in the fossil record,"
> > Reisz added in a telephone interview.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Or that the young ate different material from the
> adults. Parental care is not the only answer.

What could they eat if they really had no teeth at all? (There's no evidence 
for a beak in *Massospondylus*, contrary to earlier hypotheses.)