Over the next few days, more eggs were found, several containing fossilized embryos that led the scientists to believe the eggs were probably those of protoceratops.
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The skull was crushed, and it was speculated that the injury was received by a " Protoceratops " mother defending her nest from the predator.
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A moment later, White Tip stumbles into a shallow valley of a " Protoceratops " nest, where she encounters a doe and a buck.
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These eggs were mistakenly attributed to the locally abundant herbivore " Protoceratops ", but are now known to be " Oviraptor " eggs.
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Although they developed many novel adaptations, they shared many anatomical features with later ceratopsians such as " Protoceratops " and " Triceratops ".
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Mayor said she would never forget the moment when she began to suspect that the ancient images of griffins were based on reports of the discovery of protoceratops bones.
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The Shireegiin Gashuun locality is thought to be older than the Djadokhta localities that produced " Protoceratops ", and is probably early Late Cretaceous in age.
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Ceratopsians, famous for " Protoceratops ", " Triceratops " and " Styracosaurus " illustrate the evolution of frilled and horned skulls.
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The females lunge forward, snapping and biting to goad the " Protoceratops " long enough for Blue Brow and White Tip to go in and raid the nests.
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Described by Walter W . Granger and W . K . Gregory in 1923, " Protoceratops " was initially believed to be an ancestor of the North American ceratopsians.
