February 6,
2019, Public Library of Science
A new
oviraptorosaur species from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Mongolia,
according to a study published in February 6, 2019 in the open-access
journal PLOS ONE by Yuong-Nam Lee from Seoul National University,
South Korea, and colleagues.
Oviraptorosaurs
were a diverse group of feathered, bird-like dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of
Asia and North America. Despite the abundance of nearly complete oviraptorosaur
skeletons discovered in southern China and Mongolia, the diet and feeding
strategies of these toothless dinosaurs are still unclear. In this study, Lee
and colleagues described an incomplete skeleton of an oviraptorosaur found in
the Nemegt Formation of the Gobi desert of Mongolia.
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