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  • Because theropods, the birdlike dinosaurs, aren't very big - a full-grown troodon was only about 6 feet long and 3 feet tall - the researchers think it is unlikely that one dinosaur could have produced all of the eggs in the nest.

    billingsgazette.com 2009

  • In Montana, paleontologists found the fossil of a male troodon on top of a nest full of eggs.

    billingsgazette.com 2009

  • Researchers claim that for three dinosaur species with very birdlike reproductive systems - the troodon, the oviraptor and the citipati - males may have been in charge of taking care of egg-filled nests.

    billingsgazette.com 2009

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