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Egg-citing dino find. (fossilized embryo of a carnivorous dinosaur called Oviraptor found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia)

From: Science World  |  Date: 3/10/1995  |  Author: Fairley, Peter

This just found: the fossilized embryo of an Oviraptor, a meat-eating dinosaur, curled within its egg - the first one ever discovered. Though Oviraptor means "egg thief" in Latin, the find has cleared the species of this nasty reputation, says Mark Norell, a paleontologist with the American Museum of Natural History.

Oviraptors got their negative name in 1923 from paleontologists who found an adult Oviraptor fossil perched over a nest of eggs in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The adult ...

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