Talk:Gilacorn/@comment-5491587-20120910191719

About this: Based off the real world Oviraptor Philocerataps, a type of Oviraptor that stole eggs for food.

Its name is latin for 'egg thief', referring to the fact that the first fossil specimen was discovered atop a pile of what were thought to be other dinosaur's eggs, and the specific name Philocerataps means "lover of ceratopsians", also given as a result of this find. In his 1924 paper, Osborn (the guy that found the fossils) explained that the name was given due to the close proximity of the skull of Oviraptor to the nest (it was separated from the eggs by only four inches of sand). However, Osborn also suggested that the name Oviraptor "may entirely mislead us as to its feeding habits and belie its character". In the 1990s, the discovery of nesting oviraptorids like Citipati proved that Osborn was correct in his caution regarding the name. These finds showed that the eggs in question probably belonged to Oviraptor itself, and that the specimen was actually brooding its eggs, not stealing them.