Word: stealers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China's leading paleontologist, Dong Zhiming, believes some meat eaters too may have been caring parents. In fact, he takes the contrarian view that Oviraptor, a toothless predator whose very name means egg stealer, is the victim of a bum rap. The sharp-clawed creature has been found in close proximity to nests not because it was poised to devour unhatched babies but because "it was the mother and was protecting them," says Dong...
...best way to neutralize a base-stealer is to keep him off a base," Hill said. "But if he gets on, we'll keep him close...
...confirms our suspicions that dinosaurs began as small, carnivorous, bipedal animals," says Paul Sereno, an assistant professor of anatomy at Chicago and a leader of the expedition. "We are just a couple of steps away from the ancestor of all dinosaurs." The scientists named the find Eoraptor, or "dawn stealer," because it appeared at the dawn of the dinosaurs and, considering its modest size, probably used stealth rather than brute force to snatch small prey...
...SCENE STEALER...
...Winning] would be a major step in the right direction. The Ivies are out main goal that we set at the beginning of the season," freshman Ned Stealer said...