Deinocheirus

Characteristics

Deinocheirus was magnificent; the subspecies D.mirificus means unusual and wonderous. It was massive, being around 11 meters long and leaning upwards could reach 19 feet tall and weighing over 6 tons. It had a giant beak and broad feet like a duck, and its fossils contained fish scales, Fishing in rivers and swamps while eating the underwater plants and leaves. It’s beak had no teeth and couldn't chew, but it ate gastroliths small stones that would grind up food inside the stomach. 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 with 8 inch claws served various purposes with hunting and defense, and foraging for difficult-to-reach plants, pretty typical uses, nothing horrible about them I’d say. Deinocherius lived in the very fossil-rich Nemegt formation. Species known to have coexisted with Deinocheirus are hadrosaurs like Barsboldia and Saurolophus, Titanosaurs Nemegtosaurus and Opisthocoelicaudia dome-heads like Homalocephale and Prenocephale. As well as other species like Gallimimus Protoceratops Velociraptor Therizinosaurus , Tarcia, Mononykus, and Tarbosaurus