Meaning of name: Terrible hand
Named by: Halszka Osmólska and Ewa Roniewicz, 1970
Time period: Late Cretaceous
Size: 11m long
Diet: Omnivore
Origin: Asia
Fossils seen at: London
Interesting fact: Originally known only from its massive forelimbs, it was not until 2013 that a complete skeleton of Deinocheirus revealed it to be one of the strangest dinosaurs ever, with a huge, duck-billed skull and tall neural spines that would have formed a bison-like hump.
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