Oviraptor Magnets
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Description: I have used as inspiration for this painting the famous fossil of 'Big Mamma', an oviraptor unearthed in the Ukhaa Tolgod of the Gobi Desert, who died trying to protect her nest. Truly, these small bird-like dinosaurs are inspirations to us all. First described in 1923 by Roy Chapman Andrews, director of the New York Natural History Museum and real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones, the name of this dinosaur literally means 'egg thief', as the fossilised animal was found close to a nest of prehistoric eggs. In the years since we have realised that these Mongolian dinosaurs were not thieves at all, and the eggs they were found lying upon were their own.
