Tuesday 28 October 2014

Scientists Introduce Bizarre Dinosaur

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A half-century ago, researchers found two arms in the Mongolian desert that clearly belonged to a big dinosaur - they were eight feet long and ended in nasty claws. But that was it, and so they named the mysterious creature Deinocheirus mirificus, which roughly translates into 'unusual horrible hand.'

Fifty years later, researchers have pieced together the rest, thanks mostly to the discovery of two almost complete skeletons. Deinocheirus was indeed big, on par with T-Rex. But also factor in the neck of an ostrich, the bill of a duck, and something akin to the hump of a camel.

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