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national dinosaur museum Oviraptor

Meet Oviraptor, From Egg Thief to a Devoted Parent.

The Oviraptor was a small dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period. It was a theropod, which means it walked on two legs and  fossil evidence shows that they were covered in feathers much like modern birds. The name “Oviraptor” means “egg thief. In 1923, scientists found the first Oviraptor fossil in Mongolia in…