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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’
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Velociraptors were small carnivorous dinosaurs, like oviraptors and dromaeosaurs, animals that were long thought to steal eggs.
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Researchers have also found seven fossilized male oviraptors atop egg clutches.
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