Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because of a sheath preserved on one of the digits, which reveals the claw’s true length.

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature whose two-fingered hands sport a pair of menacing curved claws.

A new species of dinosaur named Duonychus tsogtbaatari has been discovered by scientists, and unlike other therizinosaurs, this species has only two clawed fingers instead of three.

A team of palaeontologists has discovered a rare dinosaur species in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, naming it Duonychus tsogtbaatari. Unlike its therizinosaur relatives, which typically had

"They call them the sloths of the Cretaceous period," said University of Calgary paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky. "Totally bizarre looking things." In the interview with the Canadian Press, Zelenitsky was referring to Duonychus tsogtbaatari,