Oviraptor Couple

75 million years ago in Late Cretaceous Asia, a male Oviraptor philoceratops offers his mate an egg he has stolen from another dinosaur’s nest for breakfast while she broods over their own. When the first Oviraptor fossils were discovered over a nest of eggs in the 1920s, the paleontologists who found them thought the dinosaur was stealing the eggs to eat, when we now know it is more likely it was brooding over its own nest. Nonetheless, it seems possible to me that Oviraptor could still have used its powerful beak to crack open other dinosaurs’ eggs, as well as tough fruit and nuts.

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