Zhao Chuang; courtesy of Peking Natural Science Organization The exhibit goes on to show further similarities between modern species of birds like ostriches and dinosaurs like Citipati (pictured ...

The Mongolian dinosaur was revealed to the world in 1995 and named as Citipati in 2001. ‘This kind of fossil is very rare. It’s what we call a “smoking gun” fossil,’ explains Becky. ‘The dinosaur was ...

two other small predatory species – Oviraptor and Citipati – have been found in brooding positions on top of egg clutches. But a subtler look at these fossils reveal much more about dinosaur ...

The dinosaur, known as Citipati osmolskae, was a roughly emu-sized oviraptorosaur. It was most likely either buried alive by a collapsing sand dune, or it died in a sandstorm and was then covered ...

This fossil of the oviraptor Citipati brooding on her nest called ‘Big Mama’ is not only one of the finest dinosaur fossils ever discovered—it proves that dinosaurs brooded their nests ...

New analyses of fossilized dinosaur eggs and bones suggest that ... The absence of this female-specific bone marker in the Troodon and Citipati adults led Varricchio, of Montana State University ...

Five new animatronic dinosaurs joined the museum, inside and out, to show children and their families what a Triceratops, Citipati and Parasaurolophus looked like back in the day. “The expansion ...

There is some overlap in form, though. Eggs attributed to the small, sickle-clawed dinosaur Troodon and to the beaked oviraptorosaur Citipati are both elongated and taper to one end, and so seem ...

Tooth by deadly tooth, dinosaurs with a hunger for meat bit using four basic techniques, with strength sacrificed for speed and vice versa, new research finds. Carnivorous dinosaurs ranged from ...