Sunday, 12 April 2015

Creature 194: Gigantoraptor

This would be more terrifying without feathers

Description:
As far as dinosaur names go Gigantoraptor sounds pretty scary. They need a scary name, because they probably looked quite ridiculous.

The Gigantoraptor grew to up to 8 m long and probably weighed well over 1000 kg. its lower jaw lacked teeth but appears to be modified into something resembling a beak. Feathers were actually quite common in Therapod dinosaurs. There is a good chance the Velociraptors had feathers, and the T. rex may have also been feathered.



Distribution:
Specimens of the Gigantoraptor have been found in inner Mongolia and are around 70 million years old.

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Saurischia
Family:Caenagnathidae
Genus: Gigantoraptor

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