From his desk at the University of Rhode Island, paleontologist David Fastovsky on Monday showed NBC 10 a new fossil of 15 baby dinosaurs called Protoceratops andrewsi.
The plant-eaters were discovered in the Mongolian desert.
"Each of the babies is really quite small. They're about, I’d say, 6 inches long each, and if you want some comparison, the heads of those babies would be about ... maybe an inch-and-a-half. And the adult of the same animal -- Protoceratops andrewsi -- the head is about this long. The entire animal would be 6 feet but that includes tail," Fastovsky said.
Fastovsky was in the desert with other paleontologists when the dinosaurs were found. He doesn't take credit for digging them up, but he was chosen to publish the discovery.
His work made the November issue of the Journal of Paleontology.
"It really demonstrates pretty conclusively that Protoceratops took care of its young in the way that say a bird takes care of its young," Fastovsky said.
"It's an amazing find. It is definitely an amazing find," he said.
Fastovsky said the dinosaurs were probably buried alive in a giant sandstorm 70 million years ago.
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