A dinosaur best known as an egg thief may have also been a showy diva with a feathery tail like the fan of a flamenco dancer, a new study finds. Oviraptor dinosaurs lived in the late Cretaceous ...

A dinosaur best known as an egg thief may have also been a showy diva with a feathery tail like the fan of a flamenco dancer, a new study finds. Oviraptor dinosaurs lived in the late Cretaceous ...

"This dinosaur is particularly interesting because oviraptors are the first dinosaurs that built open nests," she says, explaining that earlier dinosaurs buried eggs underground, where color ...

That dinosaur was Oviraptor – the so-called “egg thief” discovered several decades before, but that turned out to be a caring mother. The story starts in 1923. In that year, an expedition ...

Oviraptors roamed the Earth during the late Cretaceous Period.Their name, which is Latin for “egg thief,” was given to them because the first remains found of this dinosaur was discovered near ...

The first oviraptor fossil—from a family of dinosaurs with parrotlike beaks—was discovered in Mongolia in the 1920s, lying near a nest of eggs thought to belong to a rival. Paleontologists at ...

Artist’s depiction of Eoneophron infernalis (top left), MOR 752 (bottom left), and Anzu wyliei (right) in the Hell Creek Formation. Illustration by Zubin Erik Dutta. Funding: Funding for ...

Oviraptorids were a family of theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 85 to 66 million years ago. But it has now been confirmed that the eggs actually belonged to ...