Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Oviraptor Tuesday


Hide all your eggs because Dino Lords unleashing Oviraptor. Or will it ?

Oviraptor name means egg thief. When the first dinosaur eggs were discovered in Mongolia, they were thought to belong to the herbivorous Protoceratops due to the large number of their remains in the vicinity. Also because the Oviraptor specimen in question has had it's skull crushed, it was thought that it was inflicted by a Protoceratops that was guarding the nest. But it has been said and proven that when a Oviraptor was on eggs it did not steel them it was just testing it's own nest, and if an Protoceratops were coming near the nest there would be conflict, and Protoceratops would have gotten the head of Oviraptor with it's head and crushed it and the eggs would not hatch. There is another dinosaur that was almost identical, this was Citipati. As a member of the oviraptoridae Oviraptor almost certainly had a covering of feathers over it's entire body.


        

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