Re: oviraptor diet

[Dino Guy and Computer Gal <gbabcock@best.com>]

See "What did oviraptorids eat?" at
<www.amnh.org/exhibitions/fightingdinos/faq.html>.  "The bones of a small lizard
were found near the stomach of an _Oviraptor philoceratops_, and as lizards make
up the diets of a number of birds, it's likely that it was this dinosaur's last
meal."

This is not to say that plants or eggs were not also likely components of a good
oviraptorid diet, but it's nice that at least there is some evidence for diet in
oviraptorids.  I hope that there will be a paper on this some day.


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Ralph W. Miller III   ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu

What, they weren't hunting giant herbivores in packs?       ;^)