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- noun Plural form of
oviraptor .
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True feathers, so far as we know, were restricted to maniraptorans (the theropod clade that includes oviraptors, dromaeosaurs and birds), but simpler, filament-like integumentary structures appear to have evolved much earlier within theropod history, probably at or around the base of Coelurosauria.
Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’ Darren Naish 2006
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Velociraptors were small carnivorous dinosaurs, like oviraptors and dromaeosaurs, animals that were long thought to steal eggs.
Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991
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Researchers have also found seven fossilized male oviraptors atop egg clutches.
billingsgazette.com 2009
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