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Baby dinosaurs were prehistoric latchkey kids

Gail P Sherman
Mar 02, 2026
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New research finds that baby dinosaurs were the Mesozoic equivalent of Gen X — kicked out of the nest to go play with their friends. A paper published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences found that juvenile dinosaurs, unlike mammals and many of their modern-day counterparts — birds — struck out on their own shortly after …

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