fossils | News | University of Calgary

People and Culture
Library
Go Dinos
Class Schedule
UCalgary Directory
Continuing Education
Careers
Bookstore
Active Living
Academic Calendar
UCalgary Maps
Faculty Websites
- Close Faculty Websites List Viewing: Faculty Websites
- Cumming School of Medicine
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Graduate Studies
- Faculty of Kinesiology
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Nursing
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Social Work
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Haskayne School of Business
- School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
- School of Public Policy
- Schulich School of Engineering
- Werklund School of Education

Oviraptorosaurs are a group of birdlike dinosaurs that were part of the ancestral dinosaur lineage that later gave rise to birds. Oviraptorosaurs walked on two legs, had a powerful toothless beak and were covered in feathers. One of the first known species, Oviraptor philoceratops, was discovered in the 1920s when a skeleton was uncovered alongside a nest of eggs in Cretaceous rocks of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Paleontologists at the time assumed that the animal had died while attempting to raid the nest of

An exquisitely preserved egg reveals what birds have inherited from dinosaurs

Artist's reconstruction of baby oviraptorid in its egg.

One-of-a-kind perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo discovered inside its fossilized egg

In the News: MSN News

10 of the coolest dinosaur findings (Jared Voris)

Dr. Darla Zelenitsky

In the News: Live Science

Newfound 'chief dragon' dinosaur species was actually the size of a chicken (Darla Zelenitsky)

In the News: CNN World

A newly discovered dinosaur with shark-like teeth was the T. rex of its day