Dinosaurs|Previously, the fossil of the unknown dinosaur species was found during the construction of the water pipe.
Gobin A new dinosaur fossil has been found in the desert Mongolia, says British Broadcasting Company BBC and Reuters news agency.
Reuters describes the new species as one of the “pretty strange Dinosaur Group’s most strange members”. Its fossil was found during the construction of the water pipe.
The new species has been named Duonychus tsogtbaatari. It had two fingers in both hands with long and curved nails about 30 centimeters.
Researchers According to the species, the species belongs to the Thaerizosaurus group. Therminosaurs were dinosaurs standing on their hind legs, typically three massive nails in their hands. They were also known for the round body, the small end and the body feather cover, Reuters says. Theerizinosaurs were vegetarians.
“Thesinosaurs are one of the strangest dinosaurs of all time. They were thesopodes – that is, the family of carnivores – but looked like gigantic feathers,” says a paleontologist Yoshitsugu Kobayashi For Reuters.
“Duonychus will take this strangeness even further. It had short, two -finger hands with nails like raptors, but used them to eat plants. As if evolution had said that something completely new. And it worked.”
Dinosaurlaji It was a medium size, about three meters long, and weighed about 260 pounds. According to researchers, it lived about 90-95 million years ago during the chalk.
The fossil found in the Gobi desert was missing, for example, skull and legs. However, the arms and hands had survived well.
According to the researchers, the creature has used his nails primarily to seize and pull the branches of trees closer to eating leaves.
On the other hand, they may have been used for other purposes, such as defense and excavation, says a paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky For Reuters.
“Maybe even to identify my own kind:” Hey, look at me, I only have two fingers “,” Zelenitsky says.