Deinocheirus Mystery, How was it solved in Detail?

[Horridus]

What is the situation with M. bucklandii - aren't the fragments distinctive enough? Wasn't there a paper on that a few years back? Iguanodon, on the other hand...well, we all know what happened there. The type species is now Iguanodon bernissartensis, with all that entails!

[DinoFan45]

Well, for the further frustration of paleontologists and enthusiasts alike, read this
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/04/tarbosaurus-leftovers-explain-dinosaur-mystery/
We found scraps. Of a meal. For a tarbosaurus.

[ZoPteryx]

Darn you Tarbosaurus!

Still, I can't imagine that it would have eaten the head and neck, so maybe those are still out there.

[DinoFan45]

I could see it happen. It is the cousin of T.rex, Which can easily crunch bone. They probably left little for scavengers to eat.

[Horridus]

They probably left little for scavengers to eat.

Or other scavengers - Tarbosaurus may have been scavenging itself.

[CityRaptor]

Can't really blame Tarbosaurus. Deinocheirus probably tasted like chicken. 
Fun aside ( even if it is not as unlikely as you think, given that crocodile meat indeed tastes like chicken ), I don't think there won't be some other remains found in the future.

[DinoFan45]

Probably not at that site. But we must hope for finds elsewhere. Or this will be one of the last mysteries of the earth. From the fossil record at the least.

[Gwangi]

Can't really blame Tarbosaurus. Deinocheirus probably tasted like chicken. 
Fun aside ( even if it is not as unlikely as you think, given that crocodile meat indeed tastes like chicken ), I don't think there won't be some other remains found in the future.

I dunno. I've had duck, pheasant and turkey...none of them taste like chicken.

[Horridus]

Can't really blame Tarbosaurus. Deinocheirus probably tasted like chicken. 
Fun aside ( even if it is not as unlikely as you think, given that crocodile meat indeed tastes like chicken ), I don't think there won't be some other remains found in the future.

I dunno. I've had duck, pheasant and turkey...none of them taste like chicken.

Nor does ostrich.

[CityRaptor]

Okay, maybe not. I know that duck does not taste like chicken. Crocodile however does.

[Dinoguy2]

Or this will be one of the last mysteries of the earth. From the fossil record at the least.

No. There is another...

http://dinogoss.blogspot.com/2009/03/they-look-like-big-good-strong-hands.html

[ZoPteryx]

More mysteries, and fewer answers.  Science can be excruciating!

[VD231991]

What is the situation with M. bucklandii - aren't the fragments distinctive enough? Wasn't there a paper on that a few years back? Iguanodon, on the other hand...well, we all know what happened there. The type species is now Iguanodon bernissartensis, with all that entails!

This thread may be a decade old, but the Megalosaurus paper you mention was published by Benson (2010), who demonstrated that the lectotype dentary of M. bucklandii is distinctive among Middle Jurassic non-avetheropod tetanurans.

Moving on to the topic of this thread, Lee et al. (2014) solved the mystery of what Deinocheirus truly looked like by describing skeletons of this animal showing that it represents an odd ornithomimosaur with a hadrosaurid-like snout and huge hump on its back.

Benson, R. B. J., 2010. A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4): 882–935. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00569.x.

Lee, Y.N., Barsbold, R., Currie, P.J., Kobayashi, Y., Lee, H.J., Godefroit, P., Escuillié, F.O., and Chinzorig, T., 2014. Resolving the long-standing enigmas of a giant ornithomimosaur Deinocheirus mirificus. Nature 515 (7526): 257–260. doi:10.1038/nature13874.

[GojiraGuy1954]

They did not know what was coming

[dyno77]

Megalosaurus itself could be in trouble since no new specimens have been found in decades...The original femur bone assigned to megalosaurus was never located ,The only remains are in the oxford museum and nhm in london also has a few fossils in the storage room.