Paleontologists have revealed that dinosaur bones dug up in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in 2012 belonged to a new species of the prehistoric reptile.
Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, an associate professor at the Hokkaido University Museum, called the new discovery Duonychus tsogtbaatari and its study was published in the journal iScience on 25 March, NBC News reported.
Kobayashi said he found the 10-foot tall and 570-pound animal to be the weirdest dinosaur for its huge claws, seven leaf-shaped teeth, backward-facing hip bones, long neck, small head and quill-like feathers, according to NBC News.
Therizinosaurs, a genus of very large dinosaurs, lived in Asia and North America during the Cretaceous Period, 145 million to 66 million years ago, and used their foot-long claws to grasp high branches and swaths of vegetation to feed.
Meanwhile, archeologists discovered last month a mummified animal in a Roman settlement they were excavating in a village in Belgium.
The creature was found under a sandstone floor that aided in its preservation, archeologist Arne Verbrugge told Fox News.
Photos of the intact teeth and skeleton of the well-preserved dog gave archeologists the impression that the dog was sacrificed to purify the building site, Verbrugge said, according to Fox News. WJG @tribunephl_wjg