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?: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A multi-institutional team of scientists this week reports the discovery of a giant new dinosaur in Utah, Nothronychus graffami, which stood 13 feet tall and had nine-inch-long hand claws that ...

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 ...

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 ...