Oviraptor

Long labelled as a new species of Oviraptor is the tall-crested animal now known as Rinchenia mongoliensis.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

"Eventually they will have to go back to Mongolia," he said of the specimens the museum collects on its trips and ship back to the U.S. He examined the skull of one of them on his screen—an Oviraptor, a small Mongolian dinosaur.

The Coolest Dude Alive Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

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

"Most of my field equipment is stored in Mongolia," said Mr. Novacek, who has been making trail-blazing discoveries there since the early '90s among them an Oviraptor, an 80-million-year-old dinosaur sitting atop a nest of eggs, and a dinosaur embryo.

Packing for a Gobi Dinosaur Hunt 2010

It turns out that Oviraptor was comparatively long-skulled for an oviraptorid and it may have been the most basal oviraptorine (Clark et al. 2002).

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

Cranial anatomy of Citipati osmolskae (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria), and a reinterpretation of the holotype of Oviraptor philoceratops.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

Starting with the oviraptorines, we begin with Oviraptor philoceratops, the first of them to be named (Osborn 1924).

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

The short, rounded skull of this species has been illustrated and labelled several times as representing Oviraptor, though it is clearly distinct from that taxon.

Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006

Darren reports on a new giant Oviraptor-- basically your near- Tyrranosaur- sized bird.

Oviraptors, Aplomados and Avantis 2007

Animals like Dromaeosaurus, Oviraptor, Velociraptor, and Coelurus-predators three to six feet tall-must have been found here in abundance.

Jurassic Park Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1991