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COPYRIGHT 2003 Las Vegas Review-Journal
BYLINE: KEN WHITE, REVIEW-JOURNAL
Eighty million years ago, across the badlands of Patagonia in Argentina, female sauropods deposited thousands of their eggs in the soft mud and covered them.
With the right conditions -- no predators, a warming sun, no floods in the mudflats -- those six-inch eggs would hatch and the sauropods inside would grow to become huge, long-necked dinosaurs.
But the floods did come, covering over the nests of...
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