Even though the discovery of the 80
million-year-old dinosaur fossil in
the Gobi desert of Mongolia - by
fossil-hunters from the American
Museum of Natural History in New
York and the Mongolian Academy
of Sciences -shows the animal sitting on its nest of eggs, its original
name of Oviraptor or egg seizer
remains.
With the hind legs tucked tightly
under its body and the forelimbs
encircling the nest protectively, the
posture seems to depict a cozy scene.
The animal might have been guarding its eggs against predators or
warming or shading them from the
sun. Whatever it might have been
doing, this is the first case which
brings out the parent in the dinosaur.
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