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Oviraptor (oh-vih-RAP-tore) Meat eater, 8 feet long, Late Cretaceous period. 80 million years ago located in Mongolia. Oviraptor was a 7-foot-long toothless dinosaur with a sharp beak that may have fed on many kinds of food. It’s name means “egg thief” because when it was first discovered, it was thought to be eating eggs from a nearby nest of fossil eggs. Now we know from fossils that Oviraptor was actually the parent who sat on its nest of eggs.