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   ocr: the Gobi Desert by the Museum's Central Asiatic Expedition of the 1920s, but none of them contained embryos. This is the best specimen of an embryo to be discovered there, as well as the first embryo of a meat-eating dinosaur to be found anywhere in the world. Scientists iden- tified the fossilized embryo as. an unhatched oviraptorid, a dinosaur whose long neck and hind legs resembled those of an ostrich, while its skull looked like that of a parrot. Mlysteriously, in the same weathered nest in which the oviraptorid was discovered, scientists 214