Duonychus – a new two-clawed therizinosaur

[DinoToyForum]

'Unique two-clawed dinosaur discovered'. Article in the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7v3eln56no

Link to paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00401-8

[Concavenator]

Ah yes, the Duolingo therizinosaur.

[Pliosaurking]

That's a cool find!

[Faelrin]

That's absolutely wild. Shows how much we still have yet to learn from these magnificent ancient animals.

[Protopatch]

This is a cool discovery !
Here is the link to the paper : https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00401-8

It could be a great prospective figure for a Gobi team

[DinoToyForum]

This is a cool discovery !
Here is the link to the paper : https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00401-8

It could be a great prospective figure for a Gobi team

Thanks, I've just also added the link to the paper to the first post, along with the main figure. 

[Halichoeres]

That's a cool find. The worst pianist among therizinosaurs.

[Libraraptor]

Sometimes I am confronted with the accusation that paleontologists simply come up with new bizarre creatures at random in order to keep the crowd of interested people curious. Maybe the third finger was simply deliberately suppressed here   Or the fingers in question were carried away by scavengers?

[Shane]

Sometimes I am confronted with the accusation that paleontologists simply come up with new bizarre creatures at random in order to keep the crowd of interested people curious. Maybe the third finger was simply deliberately suppressed here   Or the fingers in question were carried away by scavengers?

They found the entire manus, the third finger is there, it's just severely reduced to the point of being vestigial and nearly fused to the adjacent finger.

[DinoToyForum]

That's a cool find. The worst pianist among therizinosaurs.

But still a master compared to alverosauroids.

[oscars_dinos]

hopefully we can find a head

[Libraraptor]

Sometimes I am confronted with the accusation that paleontologists simply come up with new bizarre creatures at random in order to keep the crowd of interested people curious. Maybe the third finger was simply deliberately suppressed here   Or the fingers in question were carried away by scavengers?

They found the entire manus, the third finger is there, it's just severely reduced to the point of being vestigial and nearly fused to the adjacent finger.

Ah I see, thank you !  Sometimes new finds are too cool to be true, I guess.

[Shane]

Sometimes I am confronted with the accusation that paleontologists simply come up with new bizarre creatures at random in order to keep the crowd of interested people curious. Maybe the third finger was simply deliberately suppressed here   Or the fingers in question were carried away by scavengers?

They found the entire manus, the third finger is there, it's just severely reduced to the point of being vestigial and nearly fused to the adjacent finger.

Ah I see, thank you !  Sometimes new finds are too cool to be true, I guess.

It's not really too cool to be true. In life, the third finger would likely be completely invisible and fused with the adjacent finger.

There is a bone of the third finger, but it's so small and reduced compared to the others that it's kinda like the little leg bones that still exist in whales. Doesn't mean whales have legs, just that they have leftover bones there internally. That's what this third finger bone is. Effectively invisible.

Or, for a much more direct comparison, it's like the vestigial third finger bones in T-rex, which do exist, but nobody thinks of T-rex as having three fingers.