Tens of millions of years before the first bird carried food to a nest, a large duck-billed dinosaur was already doing something quietly remarkable: feeding its young a softer, richer diet than it ate itself. New analysis of fossilized Maiasaura teeth, distinguished by their wear patterns, reveals that parental provisioning — long considered a hallmark of avian evolution — may trace its origins to the very dawn of the dinosaur lineage. In the deep grammar of family life, it seems, the instinct to give one's offspring something better is ancient beyond reckoning.
Study reveals dinosaurs fed young a special high-protein diet to boost growth
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