If the world’s most notorious carnivore had survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, it might have eventually lost its arms altogether.
The sordid details of how dinosaurs had sex have long eluded scientists. Now there’s a new idea emerging – could their most eccentric features tell us how they did it?
The limb, complete with skin, is just one of a series of remarkable finds emerging from the Tanis fossil site in the US State of North Dakota.
But it’s not just their exquisite condition that’s turning heads – it’s what these ancient specimens are purported to represent.
Scientists can’t pinpoint the exact year that an asteroid came out of the sky to wipe out the dinosaurs but they’re sure now that the huge space rock struck Earth in the Northern Hemisphere springtime.
The rare specimen suggests that a two-legged dinosaur known as an oviraptorid hatched the way birds do
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