noun

• A bipedal dinosaur of the late Cretaceous period, having a toothless jaw and long forelimbs with clawed fingers.

  Genus Oviraptor, family Oviraptoridae, suborder Theropoda

  ‘Some of the most well-preserved specimens of dinosaurs ever found are oviraptors.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The find shows that a group of dinosaurs called oviraptors roamed much farther south than previously thought, they add.’
  • ‘The Incisivosaurus specimen clears up where oviraptors fit into the dinosaur hierarchy, says Currie.’
  • ‘A shocking recent study found an oviraptor embryo inside one of those eggs, so actually the oviraptor was by its own nest!’
  • ‘This is a fossil that consists of only the pelvic region of an oviraptor, which also happens to have a pair of large eggs nestled inside it.’