Left - Oviraptor embryo reconstruction; Norell and Dingus, p. 27
Right - adult Oviraptor embryo reconstruction; Norell and Dingus, p. 19


In 1993 during field work in the Gobi, scientists from the American Museum of Natural History discovered an embryo fossilized inside an egg identical to Colgate's. This revealed a big surprise -- that the egg depositor was not Protoceratops, as Andrews had presumed, but rather the meat-eating dinosaur, Oviraptor philoceratops!