Deinocheirus
Deinocheirus Mirificus
Pronounced: DINE - o
- KIE - rus
Diet: Carnivore
(Meat-Eater)
Name Means: "terrible
hand"
Length: Carnivore
(Meat-Eater)
Height: 12 - 20 feet
(3.5 - 6m)
Weight: up to 10 tons
(9,000 kilos)
Time: Cretaceous - 70
million years ago
Fossil remains for this Dinosaur have been found in Mongolia Asia
Imagine a giant predator as big as
Tyrannosaurus rex that had powerful
8-foot-long arms armed with 10-inch-long
claws. Then make it the fastest dinosaur
that ever lived and you would have
Deinocheirus!
A stunning and fascinating discovery, Deinocheirus is
only known from a single skeleton that contained only
the arms and a few vertebrae and ribs. The information
we do have indicates that Deinocheirus was a large and
powerful two-legged predator that would have certainly
used its massive arms to catch and kill its prey. If
Deinocheirus was in fact a very large member of the
Ornithomimosaurian family as scientists now believe (see
Gallimimus ), it could have been very fast - maybe
the fastest dinosaur that ever lived. |
