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Morning on the seasonally dry lake where a Troodon nesting colony is situated in what will become northwestern Montana. A male Troodon tends to his clutch as newly hatched chicks stay close. It's been hypothesized that males tended the nests like modern ratites since a skeleton collected in situ on a nest showed no evidence of calcium depletion during shell formation. The lake will expand during the rainy season and flood this shallow flat, but for now it is dry with wasps and other insects burrowing into the limey mud in which the dinosaurs construct their nests. The nest rim is based on the famous specimen partially collected at Egg Mountain, just outside of Choteau, Montana. A great place to visit and to see grizzly bears where they still come out onto the plains to eat berries. Thanks for looking!

Description
Morning on the seasonally dry lake where a Troodon nesting colony is situated in what will become northwestern Montana. A male Troodon tends to his clutch as newly hatched chicks stay close. It's been hypothesized that males tended the nests like modern ratites since a skeleton collected in situ on a nest showed no evidence of calcium depletion during shell formation. The lake will expand during the rainy season and flood this shallow flat, but for now it is dry with wasps and other insects burrowing into the limey mud in which the dinosaurs construct their nests. The nest rim is based on the famous specimen partially collected at Egg Mountain, just outside of Choteau, Montana. A great place to visit and to see grizzly bears where they still come out onto the plains to eat berries. Thanks for looking!