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OCR: x NESTING Pteranodon probably nested on the ground like a large seabird: laying eggs in a scooped-out, saucer-shaped nest, or on a nest mound built of dried seaweed. If Pteranodon was warm-blooded, it could have sat on its eggs until its body heat hatched them. If Pteranodon was cold-blooded, heat from decaying plants in a nest mound did the same job. After mating, perhaps pterosaur parents stayed paired: one keeping guard on their hatchlings, while the other flew off to sea to catch food for their young.