According to Reuters, paleontologists Jim Kirkland and Doug Wolfe discovered a weird, sloth-like Nothronychus ... the amount of dry land on the planet. Almost no dinosaur fossils have been found ...

The two dinosaurs -- the weird, sloth-like Nothronychus and a small carnivore ... and reduced the amount of dry land on the planet. Almost no dinosaur fossils have been found from that time ...

What sort of critter?: Nothronychus was an herbivorous theropod dinosaur that belonged to a lineage called therizinosaurs. Size: Over 15 feet long. How much of the creature’s body is known?: ...

At that time - the middle of the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era - Earth was in the throes of extreme global warming that melted the polar ice caps and dramatically reduced the land area on the ...

but also dominated life upon it for more than 160 million years. It was only an unprecedented extraterrestrial event that finally saw the end of planet dinosaur.

One such therizinosaur was Nothronychus, and a nearly complete skeleton of this dinosaur was just announced in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The approximately 90-million-year-old ...

A restoration of the therizinosaur Nothronychus. Art by Nobu Tamura ... “raptors“, or other famous dinosaur tribes. But the therizinosaurs really do deserve more popularity.

The new dinosaur belongs to a group known as theropods, with other hereditary members including the legendary Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. But unlike his cousins, Nothronychus graffami was ...

The newly discovered dinosaur, dubbed Nothronychus graffami, lived some 93 million years ago. When alive, the animal would have stood at 13 feet (4 meters) and sported a beaked mouth and forelimbs ...