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 fossil under the microscope was a skeleton of a roughly emu-sized, parrot-like dinosaur called Citipati that had been found perched atop a nest of eggs. Paleontologists know it affectionately ...

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 ...

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 ...

If this were true it would account for many of the specialized bird characteristics seen in dinosaurs like Oviraptor and Citipati, but Incisivosaurus supports a different hypothesis. As an early ...

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 ...