With foot-long claws, Duonychus ... The claws could bend almost perpendicular to the dinosaur’s forelimbs. That extreme flexion would have enabled it to strip leaves from trees, rake bark ...

Called Duonychus tsogtbaatari, the dinosaur has 2-foot-long clawed fingers on each hand, one fewer than its fellow Therizinosauria. Duonychus, which means “two claws” in Greek, stood about 10 ...

The claw could have been so well-preserved because ... Therizinosaurs were long-necked herbivorous or omnivorous dinosaurs that lived in Asia and North America during the Cretaceous period.

The dinosaur has been given the scientific name Duonychus ... bone,” he added via email.Most therizinosaurs had long claws to grab and manipulate plants, giving them “this reputation as ...

It decays long before bones do,” says Kobayashi. “Most of the time, when we find dinosaur claws, we’re only looking at the bony core. But in life, the actual claw would have been covered in ...

The dinosaur, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, measured about 10 feet (3 meters) long, weighed approximately ... stiff joints and the two massive claws.” The claws may have served multiple ...

These large, flightless birds have powerful, muscular legs and tough, prehistoric-looking feet with claws that can deliver a ...

With foot-long claws, Duonychus, a newly discovered species ... But despite its ferocious appendages, this dinosaur wasn’t a carnivorous predator. “It’s like nature gave it a pair of ...