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Podcast: Animal Education Podcast
Episode: Animal Education 19 - Oviraptor
Description: Send us Fan Mail So, yesterday's post was about when the movies get dinosaurs wrong. What happens when science gets dinosaurs wrong? Now, this happens a lot as what we thought was right gets changed by new discoveries. However, this change is still interesting to talk about. This is Oviraptor, up to 5.2ft. long and 73-88lb. dinosaur from late cretaceous Mongolia. Yes, this creature did live with velociraptors and is related. However, Oviraptor's lineage split off from Velociraptor before birds did. That's the current theory, anyway. So why is Oviraptor called Oviraptor? See, its name means e...