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 ...