And since then, two other small predatory species - Oviraptor and Citipati - have been found in brooding positions on top of egg clutches. But a subtler look at these fossils reveal much more about ...

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 ...

The most famous species of the group is Oviraptor. Present in Mongolia 75 million years ago, this dinosaur lived alongside ... our understanding of our planet’s past. The country has experienced ...

and the close proximity of the parent confirmed that this dinosaur really did incubate its nest like its modern bird cousins. The neat layout of oviraptor nests also suggested that they were ...

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 ...

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 few unlucky "Protoceratops" eggs were fossilized next to the jaws of another dinosaur (Oviraptor, which means "egg thief"), presumably in the act of raiding the nest. Decades later, it turned ...

Left: The new fossil preserving an adult oviraptorid dinosaur with eggs containing ... Oviraptorosaurs, also known as oviraptors, were named as such owing to an early paleontological ...

When a tiny embryonic dinosaur that died some 90 million years ... describe the famous fossil as being a new species of giant oviraptor. Fossil eggs similar to that of Baby Louie's, which are ...