Prehistoric Tube C (CollectA)

Since they first started producing tube sets back in 2015, CollectA has covered a pretty decent variety of prehistoric life, wild animals, sea creatures, and farm stock. In 2021, they went back to the beginning with a third dinosaur (mostly) set consisting of ten figures, all based on previously released toys.

First we have this elfin Alamosaurus. Measuring around 8.5 cm long and 5.5 cm tall, […]

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#alamosaurus #argentinosaurus #guidraco #iguanodon #mapusaurus #mercuriceratops #oviraptor #pliosaurus #therizinosaurus #utahraptor

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/06/six-types-dinosaur-eggs-found-one-place/

The story is less dramatic than the headline (try to contain your shock) which makes it sound like multiple #species sharing a #nest. That would be tremendous news, implying amazing things about #interspecies behavior. But it's still a very nice find. And I love some of the site names on the map.

Also, the journal article is linked from the story, which IMO should be mandatory for all #popular #science #reporting. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0314689

What the find does seem to show is a diverse ecosystem with multiple species sharing nesting *grounds*. Some of them were related, like various kinds of the unfairly-named† #oviraptors, while others weren't even #dinosaurs at all! That's still pretty nifty.

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: no more than today, the #Mesozoic was never All Killing, All The Time. Dinosaurs did, of course, hunt and eat each other, and no doubt destroyed rivals' nests as well. But most of the time, they were living their lives in relative peace. Modern dinosaurian behavior is as good a guide as any here: even the meanest #birds tend their nests more than they fight.

†#Oviraptor was discovered on a nest, and the initial assumption was that it was stealing the eggs for food, thus the name "egg thief." Subsequent discoveries showed the eggs were its own—it was brooding, not raiding. But the species and all its kin have to bear the slander through their afterlife.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2023 illustration of Heyuannia laying blue-green eggs (there's published evidence of this), from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOopep3O6uDcXhpVjBXzHqU8LNYHkK5hC7Em8KpKWOXDdBHsAE3U1

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Heyuannia #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Oviraptor #WildlifeArt

I spent the last two years working on the new Discovering Dinosaurs gallery at Wollaton Hall, which is now open.

Here's one of the display cases with a nesting Oviraptor skeleton on the top!

#NottNatHist #museum #WollatonHall #birds #Oviraptor #paleontology

Replica skeleton of Oviraptor, surrounded by bird skeletons and other dinosaurs in the background, in our soon-to-open new Discovering Dinosaurs gallery.

#FossilFriday #Dinosaurs #dinosaur #Oviraptor #skeletons #birds #NottNatHist #Museum

Small, fluffy and cute. Who is it? An oviraptor.

#dinosaur #oviraptor #conceptart #illustration #2D #semirealism #cutedinos #cutedinosaurs #raptor