--- description: Scientists in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, have unearthed fossils that complete a picture of one of the more bizarre-looking dinosaurs title: Goofy-Looking Dinosaur Discovered in Gobi Desert image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9bdd5529a0a9bae0/6987625be20a87b091a82a06/odd-dinosaur_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Science](/section/science/) ## Science Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Paleontology](/tag/paleontology/) ## Paleontology Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Newly Discovered Fossils Reveal Goofy-Looking Dinosaur by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 23, 2014 9:30 AM CUT  This undated handout image provided by Michael Skrepnick, Dinosaurs in Art, Nature Publishing Group, shows a deinocheirus This undated handout image provided by Michael Skrepnick, Dinosaurs in Art, Nature Publishing Group, shows a deinocheirusMichael Skrepnick—AP by [Helen Regan](/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 23, 2014 9:30 AM CUT Scientists in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert have unearthed fossils that have allowed them for the first time to build a complete picture of one of the more bizarre-looking [dinosaurs](http://www.nature.com/news/fossils-reveal-beer-bellied-dinosaur-1.16203 "undefined"). _Deinocheirus mirificus_, which means “unusual horrible hand” in Latin, has stunned scientists with its strange combination of features, according to a study in the journal _Nature_. The recently discovered 70 million-year-old fossils suggest deinocheirus was humpbacked, had a ”beer-belly,” tufts of feathers and wide hips and feet that caused it to waddle. “This is an entirely new body plan,” said Stephen Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh in the U.K. The fossils add to bones that were discovered 50 years ago. Back then scientists thought deinocheirus was smaller and fiercer, now they believe it was about the size of _Tyrannosaurus rex_, _Nature_ reports. “This creature wasn’t built for speed,” says Brusatte. “That’s pretty obvious.” Scientists used data gathered from the fossils to create a video of what the dinosaur may have looked like and how it may have walked. \[[_Nature_](http://www.nature.com/news/fossils-reveal-beer-bellied-dinosaur-1.16203 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3533257/newly-discovered-fossils-reveal-goofy-looking-dinosaur/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3533257/newly-discovered-fossils-reveal-goofy-looking-dinosaur/"},"headline":"Newly Discovered Fossils Reveal Goofy-Looking Dinosaur","datePublished":"2014-10-23T09:30:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:57:44.406Z","description":"\"This creature wasn’t built for speed. That’s pretty obvious”","url":"https://time.com/3533257/newly-discovered-fossils-reveal-goofy-looking-dinosaur/","keywords":["Paleontology","dinosaurs","mongolia","fossils"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9bdd5529a0a9bae0/6987625be20a87b091a82a06/odd-dinosaur_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9bdd5529a0a9bae0/6987625be20a87b091a82a06/odd-dinosaur_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Odd Dinosaur","caption":"Odd Dinosaur","creditText":"Michael Skrepnick—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/paleontology/","name":"Paleontology"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3533257/newly-discovered-fossils-reveal-goofy-looking-dinosaur/","name":"Newly Discovered Fossils Reveal Goofy-Looking Dinosaur"}}]}] ```