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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