Scientists have discovered a new type of dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. The name Duonychus TsogtbaaAratiDinosaur contains a 2 -foot claw fingers on each hand, less than his colleague theerizinosauria.
Duonychus, which means “Maaklaban” in the Greek language, stood by about 10 feet and weighed about 570 lbs and belongs to a group of dinosaurs called Theizinosaurs, which was characterized by a strange set of qualities: huge claws believed to have been used to commit her cut, characterized by back bones, and characterized by their presence, and she believes that there is a small claw In the neck, which is a sparkling feathers.
“This is a kind of mental dawn,” the main author of a study published on Tuesday in Iscience magazineI tell Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Associate Professor of Hokkaido University Museum, NBC News via email. “I felt this excitement, like,” wait … am I really looking at something new here? “
Kobayshi said that Terizinosaurs was “the strangest dinosaurs there.” “Duonychus takes this strangeness and pushes it further. It is like development, he said,” Let’s try something different, “and ran with it.”
Theerizinosaurs lived in Asia and North America during the Cretaceous period, 145 million to 66 million years ago.
Although there are only violators, Duonychus was “effective Grasper” could reach branches or areas of plants of about 5 inches.
“The dinosaurs were not stuck in a single body plan – they were constantly experimenting, developing, doing strange things,” Kobayashi added, describing them as “Total Oddbals”.
The author of the study, Darla Zellingski, a co -professor at Calgary University in Canada, described Duonychus claws as “sharp and huge”, about 1 feet.
“The claws had other jobs, such as self -defense or struggle in an email on Wednesday, adding that the claws could have used their claws to understand the vegetation and pull it to the mouth during feeding.
Although theerizinosaurs was part of the theroPOD group, which included eating meat like Tyrannosaurus and Spinosaurus, Duonychus mainly ate papers of large bushes and trees.
The sample was drilled in 2012 by researchers from the Mongolian Academy of Science Academy from the formation of the Gobi Desert’s Bayanshire, dating back 90 million years and is known for its exceptional variety in Thezinosaurs.
Al -Hafriya was a partial skeleton without a skull and legs, but the hands were preserved “exceptionally”, according to the study. Duonychus was not completely ripe.
“A wonderful new discovery, and the two claws are interesting.”
Benton said on Wednesday that the dinosaurs had five fingers, just like humans, but they soon lost two over time, with most dinosaurs three fingers.
“Therefore, the descent to two was unusual,” he said.
Benton said that the number of numbers does not matter when it comes to confirmation and clouds, adding that the third finger may be “unwanted” because of its short length.
The fossil records of Theerizinosauria “significantly abundant” in the chalk deposits throughout East Asia, especially in Mongolia and China, according to the study.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) called the Mongolian Jobi Desert, “the largest dinosaur fossil reservoir in the world.”