Tenía una cabeza grande y poderosa

spending part of its time in the water but returning to land in search of of food

designed to support its large body mass

and the last known individual in captivity survived until 1939

and it is likely that it competed with other large carnivores of the time

Citipati osmolskae Variant:Primed Tenía una cabeza grande yCitipati osmolskae is a species of theropod dinosaur belonging to the family Oviraptoridae, which lived during the late Cretaceous period, approximately 75 to 70 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in the Djadokhta Formation, in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia. The name Citipati comes from a Tibetan deity, while the specific epithet "osmolskae" honors Polish paleontologist Halszka Osmlska for her contributions to the study of Asian dinosaurs.