Oviraptor

 

Name: Oviraptor ("egg thief")

Habitat: Deserts of Asia

Historical Time: Late Cretaceous (85-75 million years ago)

Size and Weight: About 8 feet long and 75 pounds

Diet: Probably meat

Fact: Oviraptor was founds sitting on a clutch of fossilized eggs (now known to be its own), the eggs were thought to belong to an entirely different kind of dinosaur, Protoceratops, it was assumed this new specimen had stolen the eggs, hence its name, "egg thief."