Deinocheirus skull

[Funk]

Finally: http://www.infomongolia.com/ct/ci/7787

[Newt]

I don't understand...there's a hadrosaur skull in one picture; I can't tell what the skull in the other picture is (or if it's the same hadrosaur skull).  Maybe something was lost in translation.

[Funk]

On the DML Ben Chrisler said "A news story from Mongolia. The skull for the Deinocheirus looks a lot
like a hadrosaur on the beak end but theropod-like from above."

[Balaur]

Wow! So the head is weird!

[therizinosaurus]

Not sure what I'm more confused by...the incredibly hadrosaur-esque skull, or that bizarre reconstruction where Deinocheirus has a massive humpback...

[Trisdino]

It was found that Deinocheirus had a structure on its back, similar to that of concevantor, or modern day rhinos, suggesting a hump. so it is not a bizarre reconstruction at all.

[tyrantqueen]

It was found that Deinocheirus had a structure on its back, similar to that of concevantor, or modern day rhinos, suggesting a hump. so it is not a bizarre reconstruction at all.

C'mon guys, this news is so 2013

[ZoPteryx]

Holly fudge, could this dinosaur get any weirder!!!    I'm guessing they discover it had cloven hooves next! 

[Balaur]

Holly fudge, could this dinosaur get any weirder!!!    I'm guessing they discover it had cloven hooves next! 

Ha! Yep, a mysterious dinosaur that turns out to be the weirdest of them all. Its an ornithomimosaur, but it has a hump and a hadrosaur like skull... That's just weird! So freaking awesome!

[ZoPteryx]

Holly fudge, could this dinosaur get any weirder!!!    I'm guessing they discover it had cloven hooves next! 

Ha! Yep, a mysterious dinosaur that turns out to be the weirdest of them all. Its an ornithomimosaur, but it has a hump and a hadrosaur like skull... That's just weird! So freaking awesome!

It's just so weird, all signs pointed to Deinocheirus being a high-level browser: long neck, long arms, hooked claws, tall stature; but now it beak suggests it was a grazer!  There's nothing else in the skeleton to suggest that, except possibly the short, sturdy legs and maybe the hump if it played a role in structural support.   Speaking of the hump, did you notice that skeletal restoration in the background?  It's way taller and farther forward than I had imagined!  But given its new found beak this might make sense for animal that spent a lot of time leaning forward to graze (major neck muscle attachment site perhaps?).

[Balaur]

Yeah, I noticed the skeletal. I'm thinking it may have taken a similar niche to hadrosaurs.

[CityRaptor]

Interesting! So basically it is a Theropod that evolved Hadrosaur-like features.

[Takama]

Can the collecta model get any more outdated?

[CityRaptor]

Maybe if it turns out Deinocheirus was scaly.
To be fair, no one could have predicted that Deinocheirus had that kind of skull.

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

That's very interesting.  Ornitomimids do have a sort of beak-like look to their skulls too..so it would just be a different shape but still similar.   I'd like to see actual comments by the scientists that end up studying it though.

[Yutyrannus]

So, the skull that looks like a hadrosaur skull is the Deinocheirus skull? Any better pics of it? I need some profile pictures of it for my new Deinocheirus picture.

[Funk]

That's right, apparently.

For some reason most humped depictions show the hump over the hips only, not sure what that assumption was based on... I tried to update the Wikipedia image according to the new stuff: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hypothetical_Deinocheirus.jpg Will have to update it again when better photos get out, of course.

[Yutyrannus]

Don't you need to change the skull?

[Funk]

I did make it flatter and a bit more duckbill-like, if you compare to the older version. Not sure how it looks in profile, so it is just a guess.

[Yutyrannus]

Oh, okay, I see what you mean. Also, I think the skull looks like Edmontosaurus annectens, so maybe try to base it off of that.