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Oviraptorosaurs are a group of birdlike dinosaurs that were part of the ancestral dinosaur lineage that later gave rise to birds. Oviraptorosaurs walked on two legs, had a powerful toothless beak and were covered in feathers. One of the first known species, Oviraptor philoceratops, was discovered in the 1920s when a skeleton was uncovered alongside a nest of eggs in Cretaceous rocks of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Paleontologists at the time assumed that the animal had died while attempting to raid the nest of

An exquisitely preserved egg reveals what birds have inherited from dinosaurs

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Artist's reconstruction of baby oviraptorid in its egg.

One-of-a-kind perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo discovered inside its fossilized egg

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Jared Voris
In the News: MSN News

10 of the coolest dinosaur findings (Jared Voris)

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Dr. Darla Zelenitsky
In the News: Live Science

Newfound 'chief dragon' dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken (Darla Zelenitsky)

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In the News: CNN World

A newly discovered dinosaur with shark-like teeth was the T. rex of its day

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Darla Zelenitsky, Kohei Tanaka
In the News: CBC News

Newly discovered dinosaur predated tyrannosaurs — and at the time was a bigger apex predator (Darla Zelenitsky, Kohei Tanaka)

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In the News: Gizmodo

How do we know birds are dinosaurs? (Jessica Theodor)

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In the News: CBC News

Baby dinosaur parts in Alaska prove existence of Arctic dinos, says researcher (Patrick Druckenmiller)

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In the News: Smithsonian Magazine

Dinosaurs nested in the high Arctic (Darla Zelenitsky)

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Reaper of Death

Recently discovered Alberta tyrannosaur, the 'Reaper of Death,' gets its own coin

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