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Huge claw belongs to newly-discovered species of sloth-like dinosaur

Allan Rose Hill
Mar 25, 2025
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dinosaur claw reconstruction: Masoto Hattori

"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, a bizarre new species of dinosaur excavated in the Gobi desert.

"They w…

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