A new dinosaur species has been discovered in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert based on two “exquisitely preserved” long fossil claws, an advance that sheds more light on a less understood family of the giant reptiles.
The species, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, belongs to a group of two-legged dinosaurs called therizinosaurs that lived in central and eastern Asia as well as in western North America during the Cretaceous period around 90 million years ago, researchers say.
