A Gigantic “Plucked Turkey” Dinosaur Discovered in China

Illustration: Mark A. Klingler, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Paleontologists have uncovered a bizarre-looking, vegetarian dinosaur in China’s Gobi desert, dubbed the Suzhousaurus megatherioides (a therizinosaur):

"These are without doubt some of the strangest dinosaurs ever found," said Matt Lamanna, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

"They looked kind of like a gigantic plucked turkey."

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