Citipati

Citipati was a feathered dinosaur that roamed Asia around 75 million years ago. It’s famous for fossils found sitting on nests of eggs, showing how some dinosaurs cared for their young like birds do today. This clever oviraptorid gives us clues about the link between dinosaurs and modern birds.

• Lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 75 to 71 million years ago.
• Multiple well-preserved fossils show adults brooding over nests of eggs.
• First discovered in the 1990s in Mongolia's Djadochta Formation.