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New oviraptor dinosaur from the US Hell Creek Formation lived at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs and weighed about the same as an average woman

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A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America

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Artist’s depiction of Eoneophron infernalis (top left), MOR 752 (bottom left), and Anzu wyliei (right) in the Hell Creek Formation. Illustration by Zubin Erik Dutta.

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Credit: Image Credit: Atkins-Weltman et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

New oviraptor dinosaur from the US Hell Creek Formation lived at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs and weighed about the same as an average woman

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294901

Article Title: A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America

Author Countries: USA, Canada

Funding: Funding for histology processing provided to HNW by Oklahoma State University for Health Sciences. Funding to GFF provided by the Royal Society (Grant NIF\R1\191527) and a Banting Fellowship (NSERC). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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