image: XRCT scan of the femur from a baby Rapetosaurus, arrows indicate the position of a hatching line, which allows an estimation of body size at hatching. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 22, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by K.C. Rogers at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and colleagues was titled, "Precociality in a tiny titanosaur from the Cretaceous of Madagascar." view more
Credit: K. Curry Rogers, M. Whitney, M. D'Emic, and B. Bagley