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	Oviraptor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oviraptor was a small Mongolian theropod dinosaur, first discovered by legendary paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, and first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924.
		A relative of Oviraptor called Nomingia was found with a pygostyle, which is a set of fused vertebrae that would later help support the tail feathers of birds.
		Oviraptor is traditionally depicted with a distinctive crest, similar to that of the cassowary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oviraptor (613 words)

	InfoHub - Oviraptor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This evidence indicates that the Oviraptor was trying to protect those eggs when she died; they may have been her own.
		Oviraptor was bipedal; thus it walked on two legs.
		Oviraptor was high on the scale of intelligence for dinosaurs.
	www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=3486 (247 words)

	Oviraptoridae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oviraptor philoceratops, from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
		Citipati osmolskae was recently named, but a skeleton was found in the 1980s belonging to it that was thought to be Oviraptor until recently.
		Some taxa (Oviraptor, Citipati, Rinchenia) had a midline crest on top of the skull, resembling that of a cassowary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oviraptoridae (671 words)

	Oviraptor- Enchanted Learning Software
		Oviraptors had a small, stumpy, horn-like crest on its snout, probably used for a mating display; differences in these crests may represent different oviraptor species or the difference between the male, female, and juvenile of the species.
		Oviraptor was a relatively large-brained dinosaur that cared for its eggs.
		Oviraptor was first found in the Gobi desert (in Mongolia) in1924 and was described and named by Henry F. Osborn.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Oviraptor.shtml (512 words)

	Oviraptor Printout - ZoomDinosaurs.com
		Oviraptor was a small, omnivorous, bird-like dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous period, about 88-70 million years ago.
		In 1924, an Oviraptor fossil was found on top of some eggs (which contained no fossilized embryos), and people assumed that it had been eating the eggs.
		If would seem that the Oviraptor fossil in 1924 was probably a parent of the eggs in the nest, and not an egg stealer but a nurturer.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinotemplates/Oviraptor.shtml (315 words)

	Ingenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Oviraptor was first found on top of the eggs which were originally thought to belong to Protoceratops.
		As a consequence, scientists interpreted the animal died while feeding on the eggs, however, recent findings showed that these eggs were, in fact, their own.
		Ingenia is distinguished from Oviraptor by the lack of a large crest on its skull.
	www.dino-nakasato.org /en/special97/Inge-e.html (196 words)

	Babel \| Oviraptor
		This evidence indicates that the Oviraptor was trying to protect those eggs; they may have been her own.
		Oviraptor was bipedal and walked on two legs.
		Oviraptor's fingers had claws that were about 3 inches (8 cm.) long.
	www.towerofbabel.com /map/articles/05/03/01/2331222.shtml?tid=269&tid=160 (484 words)

	Oviraptor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Oviraptor philoceratops was a small theropod dinosaur discovered in Mongolia by ProfessorJ.
		Its name is Latin for "egg thief," as it was fossilized on a pileof presumed protoceratops eggs.However, it is now believed that the eggs belonged to the oviraptor and it was actually brooding its eggs.
		Oviraptor may have eaten eggs, however the strength of its beak seems to suggest that it could have also brokenbones.
	www.therfcc.org /oviraptor-171236.html (133 words)

	Oviraptor Ruminations III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Oviraptor may have originally buried the eggs under a thin sand layer and was sitting guarding the site when the sandstorm hit.
		As a matter of fact I have thought about this myself - in fact it seems self-evident that whatever else the oviraptor was doing before the storm it must have certainly been reacting to it to some degree at the moment of its death.
		Several commentators on this list seem to be of the opinion that the recently discovered "brooding oviraptor" was buried during a sand storm.
	www.dinosauria.com /jdp/ovie/ovie3.htm (594 words)

	Oviraptor: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Oviraptor philoceratops was a small Mongolian theropod[Click link for more facts about this topic] dinosaur[For more info, click on this link] named by H. Osborn in 1924.
		Oviraptor may have eaten eggs, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Oviraptor also had very large claws on each of its three strong fingers, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ov/oviraptor.htm (436 words)

	DinoData Dinosaurs Oviraptor O063 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is notable for a large number of openings in the sides and the curious horn-like prong on the tip of its snout.
		Originally this was discribed as the lower jaw of Caenagnathus ("recent jawless") and was thought to be that of an unusual bird.
		Until 1994 scientist thought that Oviraptor was a egg-thief because until this time his remains were thought to be found between the eggs of Protoceratops scientist proved in 1994 that this were his own eggs.
	www.dinodata.net /Dd/Namelist/Tabo/O063.htm (430 words)

	CM Studio - Oviraptor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Oviraptor was a small, omnivorous, bird-like dinosaur that lived during the late
		Diet: Oviraptor was probably an omnivore, which is unusual for dinosaurs.
		Anatomy: Oviraptor was about 6 feet long (1.8 m), lightly built, fast-moving, long-legged, and bipedal (walked on two legs).
	www.cmstudio.com /oviraptor.html (310 words)

	Oviraptor -- Een oviraptor is een uitgestorven dinosaurus die leefde in het ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Oviraptor -- Een oviraptor is een uitgestorven dinosaurus die leefde in het...
		Een oviraptor is een uitgestorven dinosaurus die leefde in het Krijt, ongeveer 75 miljoen jaar geleden.
		Ze werden ongeveer 2 meter hoog, 2,5 meter lang en ze hadden een rechtopstaand lichaam met zeer grote achterpoten, een korte dikke staart, stevige kaken met scherpe tanden en een grote kam op de kop; ze lijken een beetje op de velociraptor, die veel bekender zijn.
	oviraptor.nl.tracking24.net (161 words)

	Oviraptor philoceratops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For many years it went unnoticed until in recent times a new expedition found an Oviraptor embryo inside an egg assumed to be one of those ceratopsian Protoceratops.
		Oviraptor was a two to three metres long maniraptoran theropod dinosaur with a weird beaked head sporting a helmet like crest structure just above the nostrils.
		I found that the actual placement of the arms in the fossil was a very tempting feature to add a fan of feathers around them to help covering the nest, and if we consider that the feathered Caudipteryx has been classified as an oviraptorosaur, a true feathered close relative, it seems to make sense...
	www.luisrey.ndtilda.co.uk /html/ovinew.htm (432 words)

	Oviraptor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The first complete fossil of Oviraptor was discovered in Mongolia just a few feet from a nest of fossilized Protoceratops eggs.
		It is very likely that the Oviraptor was about to make a meal of the eggs when an angry adult Protoceratops caught it in the act and killed it.
		With strong muscles in its mouth, Oviraptor must have had a powerful bite that was useful for breaking through hard surfaces, such as the eggs of other dinosaurs.
	www.cbv.ns.ca /marigold/history/dinosaurs/datafiles/oviraptor.html (132 words)

	Oviraptor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Oviraptor philoceratops was a small Mongolian theropod dinosaur named by H. Osborn in 1924.
		Its name is Latin for "egg thief," as it was fossilized on a pile of presumed protoceratops eggs.
		However, it is now believed that the eggs belonged to this genus itself, and that it was actually brooding its eggs.
	en.mcfly.org /Oviraptor (127 words)

	Dinofacts \| Dinosaurs Alive
		Scientists are not sure what Oviraptor ate because its beak would be useful for many different kinds of food.
		Oviraptor could run fast with its long, thin legs, to keep away from bigger carnivorous dinosaurs.
		This makes them think that this Oviraptor was probably hatching its own eggs and not stealing other dinosaurs eggs.
	www.nms.ac.uk /dinosaurs/06.htm (137 words)

	OVIRAPTOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Some scientists believe that the raptors and other coelurosaurs might have been brightly colored, and this specimen of Oviraptor demonstrates that.
		Since one of the first Oviraptors ever discovered was near a nest, it was assumed that it was stealing and eating eggs, but perhaps it was a mother dinosaur at her own nest.
		Once a dinosaur is assigned a name, however, the name cannot change, so whether or not Oviraptor just has a bad reputation for eating eggs, the name is still the same.
	www.dinoworld.net /ovirapt.htm (97 words)

	The Search for Gold Guarding Griffins, Alaska Science Forum
		The fossil of an Oviraptor, a name that means "egg seizer" in Latin, was found atop what was thought to be a Protoceratops nest discovered in the Gobi Desert in 1923.
		It was speculated then that the Oviraptor, a carnivore with a parrot-like beak who stood on two legs, probably died in a sandstorm while sucking Protoceratops eggs.
		Since the Oviraptor is now seen as a concerned parent hovering over its own gold-laden nest rather than a thief, Hallinan suggests we change its name to "griffinosaur," the name Mayor had jokingly given to the Protoceratops.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF12/1217.html (668 words)

	Pecking Order (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This painting is the culmination of the Oviraptor Saga.
		After surviving storms, landslides and predators, from the many eggs layered by this Oviraptor only a few hatched and the survival is still not guaranteed.
		The helpless chicks would remain in the nest for protection (but not for long, since they are growing really fast) while a protective mother (or father) Oviraptor brings food, and regurgitates it half-digested.
	www.luisrey.ndtilda.co.uk /html/peck.htm (117 words)

	Oviraptor Egg: SD - Sports, Toys & Games-Fossil Replicas from Discount-Vitamins.ws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1923, scientists gave the name Oviraptor philoceratops (egg eater) to a dinosaur they found lying on top of a nest of what they thought were Protoceratops eggs.
		Oviraptor Egg: SD is just a step in the right direction.
		Oviraptor Egg: SD can help give you that little extra boost that will help you to achieve this state of being.
	www.discount-vitamins.ws /vitamins/oviraptor-egg-sd.php (449 words)

	Oviraptoridae
		The name "oviraptor" (egg snatcher) is a misnomer; their jaws are not useful for eating eggs, but for crushing very hard food.
		Oviraptorids were originally thought to eat eggs because a skeleton was found near a nest that was presumed to be that of the ubiquitous Protoceratops, a ceratopsian dinosaur.
		The implications are manifold: this find provides excellent evidence of bird-like behavior already present in the close relatives of birds, and hints that these animals may have been endothermic (brooding keeps eggs warm).
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /diapsids/saurischia/oviraptoridae.html (393 words)

	A Nesting Dinosaur?
		The discovery of the fossil of an oviraptor mixed with of a clutch of eggs has strengthened the evolutionary hypothesis that nesting in birds has been inherited from the dinosaurs.
		Consequential statements are now promulgated which state that it has been confirmed that birds inherited their nesting behaviour from their evolutionary predecessors, the oviraptor dinosaurs - as proved by this discovery.
		A reconstruction of "the precise position" of the oviraptor on its nest.
	www.unmaskingevolution.com /7-nesting.htm (838 words)

	Pharyngula::A pelvis can say so much
		This is a fossil that consists of only the pelvic region of an oviraptor, which also happens to have a pair of large eggs nestled inside it.
		In oviraptor nests, the eggs are all in circular rings, with the pointed end outward.
		We see the same nest pattern in Troodon as with oviraptors so it seems likely then, that although these dinos were extreamly birdy in most aspects of their physiology, their eggs did not have chazale(sp?) and thus were not turned.
	pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/a_pelvis_can_say_so_much (2170 words)

	Oviraptorosauria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Oviraptor was not included in the analysis, but was assumed to be part of this clade, perhaps due to its cranial crest.
		In his phylogeny based on Maryanska et al.'s (2002) matrix, all oviraptorids except Khaan and Oviraptor are "ingeniines".
		In my phylogeny, Oviraptor is the sister taxon to other oviraptorids (as suggested by Clark et al.
	students.washington.edu /eoraptor/Oviraptorosauria.htm (1098 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		For those of you who are paleontologically inert (a condition for which the only antidote is parental cohabitation with a three-year-old boy), the Oviraptor was a meager, bird-like dinosaur who lived about 70 million years ago.
		In other words, the Oviraptor was going to protect them and watch over their hatching, not crack 'em open and slurp 'em up.
		Just as it is warming to learn that the Oviraptor was a sentimental homebody, it's depressing to learn that T-rex was more a scavenger than a hunter or predator.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste/?id=110003559 (703 words)

	Room 2's Dinosaur Reports
		Oviraptor has a deep head and a crest on top.
		Oviraptor's diet was eggs, seeds, insects, and plants.
		Oviraptor means "egg stealer" which is what he is. Even though Oviraptor ate eggs, it took really good care of its own eggs.
	www.crockerfarm.org /ac/rm02/writing01/dreports1.html (668 words)

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