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The first dinosaur egg was soft.
Article in Nature, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 77 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Biogenic origin of secondary eggshell units in dinosaur eggshells elucidates lost biomineralization process in maniraptoran dinosaurs.Science advances · 2025Article
- Fossilized dinosaur cells that defied the ravages of time - 20 years since a key discovery.Nature · 2025Article
- Insights into the early evolution of modern avian physiology from fossilized soft tissues from the Mesozoic.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fossil eggshell diversity of the Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah.PloS one · 2025Article
- Growing with dinosaurs: a review of dinosaur reproduction and ontogeny.Biology letters · 2025Review
- Exceptional Early Jurassic fossils with leathery eggs shed light on dinosaur reproductive biology.National science review · 2024Article
- Rethinking the egg.National science review · 2024Article
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- Chthonic severance: dinosaur eggs of the Mesozoic, the significance of partially buried eggs and contact incubation precursors.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Evidence for heterothermic endothermy and reptile-like eggshell mineralization inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Unexpected morphological variability in the eggshells of the South American caimans Caiman latirostris and Caiman yacare.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Microbially mediated fossil concretions and their characterization by the latest methodologies: a review.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Flexible embryonic shell allies large offspring size and anti-predatory protection in viviparous snails.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The diverse terminology of reptile eggshell microstructure and its effect on phylogenetic comparative analyses.Journal of anatomy · 2022Review
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9 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Calcified eggshells protect developing embryos against environmental stress and contribute to reproductive success
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