If you need some cool dinosaur pictures for your kids to color, hit the download button or click the picture and you’ll get a free PDF to print from your home computer! This coloring pages shows an Oviraptor. The name comes from the old greek and means “Egg thief”. This raptor species was named like this because paleontologists found several fossils with or near eggs and thought this little dinosaur stole the eggs from other animals
Modern research has proven that this isn’t the truth. The eggs found with Oviraptors fossils were their own.
This raptor has in fact sacrafized itself trying to protect its eggs when a catastrophe hit.
They should get a new name like “protective-parent-raptor” or so.
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