Talk:Oviraptor
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I'm removing the image uploaded by Dudo for the following reasons:
- Say what you will about feathered dromaeosaurids, but oviraptorids WERE feathered. Skeletal adaptations such as pygostyles serve as direct evidence of this, as do the brooding position of the nesting specimens, which could not possibly have covered thir nests without wings. Furthermore, many scientists (including Benton, whose taxonom we're using with the exception of this particular issue) consider oviraptors to be birds, not dinosaurs.
- The image depicts a specimen famously thought of as Oviraptor, but which has been renamed Citipati. If anything, it belongs on the page wfor the correct genus.Dinoguy2 18:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
I agree with the removal, I should check it before, sorry. --Dudo2 11:40, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
