Baby dinosaurs took three to six months to hatch

Fossils show dinos had incubation times more similar to reptiles than birds

Protoceratops andrewsi

SLOW GROW  This 75-million-year-old hatchling fossil of the dinosaur Protoceratops andrewsi was found in Mongolia. Fossilized P. andrewsi embryos reveal dinos had reptilelike incubation times.

© Mick Ellison/AMNH

Dinosaurs might live on today as birds, but they hatched like reptiles.