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This is probably one of my favourite photos of all time. Altangerel Perle, a Mongolian paleontologist, with the arms of Deinocheirus.

Altangerel Perle and his Stand (Digging Up Bones)

my favorite thing is that you’d assume those arms meant some enormous terrifying murdersaur but actually

a big weird duck

Hey, you want some fun? The discovery of the REST of the dinosaur is almost as weird as the beast itself.

The original arms were discovered in 1965. That was basically all they had for a long time because most of the fossils found since then had to be recovered from fossil poachers with the help of the Mongolian government (as that’s where the fossils were found)… and that process was only really coughing up Deinocheirus bones as far back as (roughly) 2010, with actual semicomplete headless skeletons finally being assembled and announced in 2014. They finally found a skull and a whole bunch of other parts in a private collection from the black market, and once those were wrested away, it was discovered they were parts missing from one of the skeletons they’d already partially assembled. As in, the literal exact same singular dinosaur.

Science is fun!