Extraordinary Fossil Captures Nesting Oviraptor Dinosaur Alongside Unhatched Offspring
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Left: The new fossil preserving an adult oviraptorid dinosaur with eggs containing embryos. Right: Artist s interpretation of a nesting oviraptorid. (Image: Fossil: Shundong Bi; Artwork: Zhao Chuang)
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Paleontologists in China have unearthed the fossil of an oviraptorosaur sitting on a nest of eggs. By itself that’s an amazing and rare discovery, but this fossil is unique in that the eggs still preserve evidence of the unhatched progeny inside.
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A world-first fossil shows an oviraptor sitting atop a clutch of eggs which researchers believe demonstrates brooding behavior in a non-avialan dinosaur