Meet Deinocheirus, the "Terrible Hand" Dinosaur

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A personal story 🙂 Meet a cast of the ~8’ long arms of #Deinocheirus, a Late #Cretaceous Mongolian discovery named by Osmólska & Roniewicz in 1970 that further cemented my life path at a young age. A photograph of “horrible hand” appeared in a “mysteries” section of a #dinosaur book I read in the early 1970s, with a human for scale. I was utterly stunned! #Therizinosaurus, #Quetzalcoatlus, and other fragmentary dinosaurs showed lil’ BC there was an entire world awaiting discovery, the neatest d