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Season 2 Episode 39 | 7m 28s Video has closed captioning.
Paleontologists found a small theropod dinosaur skull right on top of a nest of eggs that were believed to belong to a plant-eating dinosaur. Instead of being the nest robbers that they were originally thought to be, raptors like this one would reveal themselves to actually be caring parents.
Aired: 11/06/19
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