Graydon on Nostr: npub1psdfx…99sr7 npub1jc0sh…nsldg Laying more eggs is likely less energetically ...

npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 (npub1psd…9sr7) npub1jc0sh3wdfut8hmnmqy8l4smqhnq0y32mn5536mdn9wtsac5geynslnsldg (npub1jc0…sldg) Laying more eggs is likely less energetically expensive and certainly has fewer indescribably terrible failure modes than organic peroxide storage. Since it's also right there as a route to greater reproductive success (and sauropods lived a long time and laid huge clutches, plausibly annually) it seems much more plausible.

If A Wizard Did It, I'd expect the egg to have a snorkel and early lung development in the embryo. Inside the snorkel would be a death trap for bugs.