They show the horse increasing in size and evolving over 50 million ... toe eventually gave the species its name, Deinonychus, or “terrible claw.” Studying his find over the next few years ...

This dinosaur was about the size of a big dog and possessed ... Due to its sickle-shaped hind foot claw, the genus Deinonychus is known as the “awful claw .”As it attacked much larger plant ...

Similar in size to modern elephants ... remarking on their uncanny resemblance to legendary creatures like the Yeti and Bigfoot. Deinonychus means ‘terrible claw’, and the five-inch (13cm) sickle-like ...

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest ...

A bizarre two-clawed dinosaur found in Mongolia reveals rare claw preservation and offers new insight into therizinosaur evolution.

The biggest dire wolf would have paled in comparison to Epicyon haydeni, the largest canine to ever walk the Earth!

In 2012, a team of researchers from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences unearthed the fossilized remains of a therizinosaur—a two-legged dinosaur known for its long claws—in the Gobi desert.

It is the largest claw of its kind found fully preserved in this way, researchers say. “It’s close to a foot in size,” said paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky, an associate professor at the ...

A new species of dinosaur found at a Mongolian building site has the largest fully preserved claw ever found. The bipedal, herbivorous animal had only two fingers on each hand, which it may have ...

“It’s close to a foot in size.” The fossil also shows the claw was much longer than the internal bone beneath it. Hello to Duonychus, the newest dinosaur. And a weird one at that. A two ...

Unlike its therizinosaur brethren, the new species had only two claws instead of three. When Hokkaido University paleontologist and lead study author Yoshitsugu Kobayashi first saw the fossils the ...