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  • The recent book Journey to Chandara, features some of China's exciting dinosaur discoveries, such as the Microraptor from the Liaoning province, and great discoveries from the Gobi desert, such as Protoceratops and Oviraptor.

    Dinotopia in China James Gurney 2010

  • Did he say that Protoceratops predate upon Velociraptor?

    Chinasaurs: Dinosaur Dynasty at the Maryland Science Center ReBecca Foster 2009

  • Join Sarah and her team as they dig up everything from a 6000-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex to a 6000-year-old Protoceratops to a positively geriatric 6000-year-old Velociraptor!

    Steven Shehori: Sarah Palin Gets a TV Show! 2008

  • The embryo is significant in that it was the specimen that demonstrated that most/some eggs attributed to Protoceratops were actually oviraptorid eggs.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • In Mongolia, for instance, nests of little one-horned Protoceratops were filled with eggs whose volume exceeded that of an entire adult.

    New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008

  • So tomorrow I will be showing Americans around the sub-basement, showing and talking about: Archaeopteryx cast; Metriorhynchus; Rhamphosuchus; Gorgosaurus; Tarbosaurus; Iguanodon; Lambeosaurus and Protoceratops.

    Best Holiday Ever? defy_ka 2007

  • Got quite perturbed by one of their Protoceratops mounts.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

  • In this paper, entitled "Three New Theropoda, Protoceratops Zone, Central Mongolia," [1] Osborn named, and described for the first time, the "skull and jaws, one front claw and adjoining phalanges" of a small, but apparently lithe and skillful carnivore.

    Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

  • Protoceratops andrewsi, was active day and night, like many other herbivorous dinosaurs.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Protoceratops andrewsi, was active day and night, like many other herbivorous dinosaurs.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

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