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Heyuannia is an oviraptorosaur from the Late Cretaceous of southern China. Like other oviraptorosaurs, it had a short-snouted, toothless beak in a round head. Like all other known oviraptorosaurs it would have been a feathered and winged theropod. Heyuannia is known from numerous specimens and, notably, from fossil eggs preserving their original blue-green pigmented shells. Other oviraptorosaurs have been preserved sitting on nests at the time of their death, and it’s likely this was a widespread habit among oviraptors.
