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  • Researchers claim that for three dinosaur species with very birdlike reproductive systems - the troodon, the oviraptor and the citipati - males may have been in charge of taking care of egg-filled nests.

    billingsgazette.com 2009

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  • Buddhist graveyard demons of Tibet. They are portrayed as dancing skeletons. (Pantheon.org)

    June 13, 2008

  • "Citipati (pronounced CHITT-i-putt-ee) was an oviraptorid dinosaur that lived during the late Cretaceous." The name is from Sanskrit for "lord of the funeral pyre."

    At last, whichbe, your demon list and my dinosaurs come together for a thrilling conclusion.

    August 29, 2008