Hatching Season

"Hatching Season" is a short story by Harry Turtledove (writing as Eric Iverson), Analog 12/85, reprinted in Dinosaurs!, edited by Jack Dann, Ace 1990.

Focusing on time-traveling paleontologist Paula Shaffer and her field study of hadrosaur hatching season. After imprinting herself on a newly hatched hadrosaur, Paula finds herself running for her life from predatory gorgosaurs. After a harrowing night lost in the woods, Paula and her hadrosaur are able to make their way back to the hatching grounds, and Paula returns home.

Literary Critique
"Hatching Season" is an entertaining, if conventional, story, featuring a thrilling chase while engaging (very lightly) some of the theories about dinosaur and dinosaur behavior.