(Press-News.org) New oviraptor dinosaur from the US Hell Creek Formation lived at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs and weighed about the same as an average woman
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294901
Article Title: A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America
Author Countries: USA, Canada
Funding: Funding for histology processing provided to HNW by Oklahoma State University for Health Sciences. Funding to GFF provided by the Royal Society (Grant NIF\R1\191527) and a Banting Fellowship (NSERC). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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New oviraptor dinosaur from the US Hell Creek Formation lived at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs and weighed about the same as an average woman
2024-01-24
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