The two-headed dromaeosaur and the edgy oviraptorid!

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🦖 Daily Dino 🦖; Banji long

From Late Cretaceous China, Banji differs from other oviraptorids in its unusually long nasal opening that followed the curve of the crest nearly to the eye socket. It was one of the many oviraptorids in its formation, hinting at niche partitioning

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Unreferenced oviraptorid from memory, mostly just wanted to exercise trying some new approaches to adding values and shading

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Fun little fact that is kinda-ish, sorta-ish common-ish knowledge that I wasn't fully aware of until a few days ago: most Oviraptor reconstructions you see are actually based on an unnamed Oviraptorid specimen and not Oviraptor.

Link to a blog below that explains this a bit.

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I’m in full agreement. There’s some feathered dinosaurs that you can design to be featherless and still have them look cool, but Oviraptorids are one of the few dinosaurs where they just look objectively better with feathers

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I didn't realise that 50 people follow me now, thank you for the support.
Here's a new artwork, tried my best and I think it came out pretty well.

This is Nemegtomaia, an Oviraptorid from Late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
Also sorry for very few art uploads recently, life is hectic.

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Bonus details bc this took 85 years and I rly like how the face turned out even tho its such a small part of it. Also, I wasn't sure what to do with the bony projections inside the mouth, if covering them with skin is wrong, lmk! I'm very new to Oviraptorids.

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First 4 artfight attacks!!! >:3!!!

characters belong to , oviraptoridae, and Cloudpuff12

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Cassowary colouration on Oviraptorids

Never gets old

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Oof, tough call... Imma say Citipati and oviraptorids in general. I just think they're neat.

Carnotaurus and Therizenosaurus are close runners up.

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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day with oviraptorid Heyuannia huangi.

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And it’s been suggested actually that dinosaurs originally lay softshell eggs instead of hardshell, which makes sense for how extremely rare they are overall in the fossil record & how the ones we do find are hardshelled (sauropods, oviraptorids, early avians, hadrosaurs, etc.)

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Hypothetical nest parasitism which could be represented for the discovery of 2 perinatal Byronosaurus jaffei (IGM 100/972; IGM 100/974) in a nest with oviraptorid eggs, inthe Late Cretaceous "Flaming Cliffs" of the Djadochta Formation, Mongolia.

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Cheeky Oviraptorid

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Dino Fact:

Tongtianlong (Tongtianyan Dragon) is an Oviraptorid from Late Cretaceous China. The holotype was found by construction workers... as they were blowing the land up to build a new high school. Based on rocks around it, it likely died stuck in mud.

Art: Jack Wood

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Dino Fact:

Chirostenotes (Narrow Handed) is an oviraptorid from Late Cretaceous Canada. It's had an odd history, with its feet being misidentified as a new ornithomimid and named Macrophalangia and its beak mistaken for a bird's and named Caenagnathus.

Art: Daniel Bensen

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Dino Fact:

Incisivosaurus (Incisor Lizard) is an oviraptorid from Early Cretaceous China! It's an odd-looking dinosaur, most noticeably its large upper front teeth. It showed that, even though later oviraptors were toothless, they had toothed ancestors.

Art: palaeopedia

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Dino Fact:

Nomingia is an Oviraptorid from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. Its tail vertebrae were fused into a pygostyle like birds. It's where tail flight feathers are attached in birds. For Nomingia, it'd be for a fan of feathers to display to others of its kind.

Art: Sydney Mohr

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Mother's Day Dino Fact!

Oviraptor (Egg Thief) is an Oviraptorid from Late Cretaceous Mongolia. It was named this since one was found near a "Protoceratops nest". Turns out it was really an Oviraptor nest and the Oviraptor was just a mother protecting her eggs.

Art: IsisMasshiro

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