Deinocheirus

Characteristics

Deinocheirus was magnificent; the subspecies D.mirificus means unusual and wonderous. It was massive being 11 meters in length, a giant having a size similar to a Tyrannosaurus. It had a giant beak like a duck and its fossils contained fish scales meaning it was a piscivore while also being a herbivore eating the river plants of its environment and fishing. Its back vertebrae formed a hump to make it look bigger and possibly store fat and the tail vertebrae formed a pygostyle which is an attachment point for feathers meaning Deinocheirus had a tail fan. As for those feathers, Deinocheirus was most likely a heavily feathered dinosaur with a thick shaggy coat to protect its skin. Its large horrible hands served various purposes with hunting and defense and foraging difficult-to-reach plants, pretty typical uses, nothing horrible about them I’d say. Deinocherius lived in the very now fossil-rich Nemegt formation, species known to have coexisted with Deinocheirus are hadrosaurus like Barsboldia and Saurolophus, Titanosaurs Nemegtosaurus and Opisthocoelicaudia dome heads such as Homalocephale and Prenocephale. As well as other species like Gallimimus Protoceratops Velociraptor Therizinosaurus Tarcia and Tarbosaurus.