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Article: New dinosaur embryo rewrites history. (Flaming Cliffs dinosaurs found in 1923 belonged to Oviraptoridae family rather than Protoceratops family as originally claimed) (Brief Article)
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- Science News
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- November 5, 1994
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In 1923, at the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia's Gobi desert, scientists from the American Museum of Natural History identified dinosaur eggs for the first time. They classified the eggs as belonging to Protoceratops, a small, plant-eating creature abundant in the area. Now, new evidence suggests that those investigators unknowingly mislabeled their find, researchers assert.
A member of the dinosaur family Oviraptoridae laid those eggs, report Mark A. Norell, also of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and his colleagues in the Nov. 4 SCIENCE. They are the first Western paleontologists allowed to search for fossils in Mongolia since 1930.
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