Deinocheirus news!

Isn't it a humped Ornithomimid?

That skull could look as both for me. The thing is... it's hard to believe a hadrosaur would have such a set of arms

Hmm...The other three bones seem to belong to the legs. The duckbill raises a question...Why would it have one? It lived in a desert. Maybe Mongolia was once a swampy region like the Sahara. Still, most paleontoligists were right about how it looked. Well, partially.

How do they know it belongs to the same dinosaur?

I don't know. when I first saw it, the skull looked like it belonged to something related to Saurolophus.

I highly doubt that is an hadrosaur. The lower jaw's end is just too wide to seem one to my eyes.

Just look at the differences:

Now, the angle doesn't help a lot, but that is way more similar to an ornithomimid's skull than to an hadrosaur's. Yes, its beak it's wider than Gallimimus's standards, but, well, I'd think an ornithomimid with a wide beak is more believable than a duckbilled with those arms!

Yeah, I heard it was a humpbacked dinosaur that bears some resemblence to either an ornithomimid or a therizinosaur.

@DinoSteve93, fair point. I mix up skulls sometimes.

The humpback theory sees logical for desert creatures, especially large ones, like camels.

I dunno guys, this thing's skull was found and that was supposed to help us determine exactly what it was, but it just seems to deepen the mystery of the creature. That's the main reason i want this thing officially described, because it looks like a mix between a hadrosaur and a therizinosaur to me. Maybe it's a new lineage? my best guess, and the folks over at the Carnivora forum don't seem know what it was either..

@Sci-Fied metatarsals are leg bones, how they figured those belonged to Deinocheirus is beyond me. I guess there's been scant finds of this thing some where else...It's bill it very hadrosaur like. It just doesn't strike me as belonging to a hadrosaur though...

Edited: Click this link, it's more descriptive on the remains then i could ever be..

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