CBC Radio's "Quirks and Quarks" recently did a story on Deinocheirus. Seems there are now multiple specimens and we know what it looked like and what it ate. A very interesting story!
For fifty years, the dinosaur Deinocheirus has only been known from a pair of massive clawed arms, discovered in Mongolia in 1965. Without the rest of the fossil, researchers could only speculate what kind of animal lay behind those arms. But the mystery of Deinocheirus has now been solved. Dr Philip Currie, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Dinosaur Paleobiology at the University of Alberta, and his colleagues, have revealed the discovery of two new specimens, allowing them to understand the whole dinosaur. Initially they'd recovered only the bodies, as the heads, hands and feet had been taken by fossil poachers. But these were recently recovered, allowing the scientists to understand the whole animal. And Dr. Currie says that it's the strangest animal he's encountered in his long career.
CBC Radio's "Quirks and Quarks" is a great science podcast with pretty frequent stories on Dinosaurs and other Earth Science topics. Check it out. It's a weekly show available for free download as a podcast.
