Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just funny-looking fossils. As my team's new research published in Royal Society Open ...

Oviraptorosaurs have been found in present-day North America and Asia. This dinosaur family is known for its diverse variety of skull shapes, including some with very tall crests.

Imagine a giant, bird-like dinosaur that was so heavy, it weighed as much as a modern-day rhinoceros. Given its heft, how did this bulky, feathered beast sit on its eggs without crushing them to ...

Paleontologists have unearthed a surprising variety of dinosaur eggshells in Utah that could completely reshape what we know ...

For instance, oviraptorosaurs are theropod dinosaurs that evolved from meat-eaters similar to Tyrannosaurus rex and the velociraptor. But the winged creatures lost their teeth, replacing them with ...

"Oviraptorosaurs are weird and wonderful animals, but previously the only decent skeletons were known from Asian forms," said University of Maryland vertebrate paleontologist Thomas R. Holtz, Jr ...

"But these eggs with the specimen were eight to 10 times the volume of other known eggs [of oviraptorosaurs]." In the 1990s, all of the known species of oviraptorosaur were small creatures.

Oviraptorosaurs, a type of theropod, were feathered dinosaurs with short, small parrot-like skulls. They thrived during the Cretaceous period between 65.5 million and 145.5 million years ago, ...

Oviraptorosaurs, a type of theropod dinosaur with hollow bones and three-toed limbs, were very close to the dinosaur ancestry that evolved into modern birds. As well as beaks, they had feathers on ...

Paleontologists have identified a previously unknown species of dinosaur that lived in North America just before the mass extinction event around 66 million years ago.

Oviraptorosaurs are weird dinosaurs that look a bit like flightless birds. But these ancient animals aren't just funny-looking fossils. As my team's new research published in Royal Society Open ...

"Oviraptorosaurs appear to have adapted to being able to sit on their clutches, even at giant body size," study co-author Darla Zelenitsky, an assistant professor of paleontology at the University ...