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ENCORE: Hatching a Dinosaur Egg? FSU Professor Knows How Long to Wait

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,

Published August 8, 2018 at 11:21 AM EDT

How long would it take for a dinosaur egg to hatch? A study, led in part by Dr. Gregory Erickson at Florida State University, counted how long it took dinosaur "baby teeth" to develop in the egg to find out. The study, published in the journal PNAS, looked at two dinosaur species: Protoceratops andrewsiand Huypacrosarus stebingeri, studying how quickly the teeth developed in the egg, and how long those teeth would need to develop before the baby dino was ready to hatch. Dr. Ericskon explains his research methods and what went into the study. And he answers the question as to just how long dinosaur eggs took to hatch.

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Julie Glenn

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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Mike Kiniry

Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.

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