Monday, October 27, 2014

THE MYSTERY OF THE MONGOLIAN OSTRICH DINOSAUR.



 
Scientists announced Tuesday they've solved the mystery of the Mongolian ostrich dinosaur.

The mystery began in 1965, when fossil hunters found a pair of 6-foot-long, heavily clawed arm bones in Mongolia's Gobi desert. Nobody had seen anything like them before. Now, scientists say, they've got the rest of the beast ... and dinosaur textbooks may need to be rewritten.


GIF: Yuong-Nam Lee/Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources

Photo: Paleontologist Altangerel Perle, with the Museum of Natural History in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, stands between the forearms of Deinocheirus. (Louie Psihoyos/Corbis)

Source and further reading:
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/22/357622139/bigger-than-a-t-rex-with-a-ducks-bill-huge-arms-and-a-hump

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