Oviraptor


Scanning electron microscope image of the exterior of an egg shell (x 500) thought to have belonged to an Oviraptor, a carnivorous dinosaur. Note the shell surface is ornamented with ridges and thin.


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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
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