Re: Oviraptor

[WILLSCULPT@aol.com]

LBlosser@aol.com  wrote the following:  
When incubation was mentioned, I understood that to say the eggs were
possibly Oviraptor eggs.  If so, have there been any further studies on the
eggs or fragments of eggs found with the specimen?  I thought I read where a
specimen of Oviraptor was found "entangled" with a Protoceratops specimen; am
I mistaken?  Was that a different dinosaur?  If not, what is the explanation
of that finding?

Oviraptor is still Oviraptor, (actually a genus with at least 2 described
species)  and always will be despite the new revelations about it's eggs.
 The name sticks even when the reasons for giving it that name come into
question.  It's "Beak" still appears to be adapted for crushing hard round
objects like eggs, or clams?  Another closely related animal is called
Concharaptor!  

At the risk of rehashing the discussion of a couple weeks ago, what I want to
know is this:  What were all those Protoceratops doing  in and among the
Oviraptors Nesting colony???  Seriously?  

Finally,  It was a Velociraptor found entangled with a Protoceratops, 
in a 1971 Polish/Mongolian expedition in the Gobi Desert.  Pretty dramatic
and conclusive evidence of that Predetor/Prey relationship.

Bill Hunt
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