Oviraptor art

Incredible images and fascinating text explore these fascinating animals. A MUST SITE TO VISIT!

Water color and colored pencil on board 30x40 cm This illustration also appears in the book "Utrolige Dinosaurer", written by prof. Jørn Hurum and ... Oviraptor

Julius T. Csotonyi. Tyrannosaurus Rex (1000×750)

The idea that birds are descended from dinosaurs has been around for nearly 150 years.

Oviraptor is a very unique dinosaur with some rather strange features. Instead of teeth, it has a beak and something not seen in any other dinosaur: a pair of teeth in the roof of its mouth. The reason it got its name is that when it was first discovered Oviraptor was sitting on a nest of eggs. It was thought it was stealing the eggs of another dinosaur. Years later, it was found that the eggs were its own and that it was trying to protect them from an approaching sandstorm. Oviraptor has…

Side portrait of the cretaceous therapod Oviraptor. This may be used as concept art for future projects.

Incredible images and fascinating text explore these fascinating animals. A MUST SITE TO VISIT!

Johan egerkrans-OVIRAPTOR

The Oviraptor is an upcoming dinosaur coming to The Isle. Oviraptor was a small theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous. Once known for stealing eggs after being found atop a nest of supposed Protoceratops eggs, recent discoveries reveal these eggs were the Oviraptor's own, disproving such egg-thieving behavior. However, it is still not far-fetched to assume that Oviraptors were still capable of eating eggs. "One of the island's most colorful and infamous inhabitants, the…