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# Newly Discovered Fossils Reveal Goofy-Looking Dinosaur

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## Helen Regan


Oct 23, 2014 9:30 AM UTC

![Odd Dinosaur](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9bdd5529a0a9bae0/6987625be20a87b091a82a06/odd-dinosaur_wong.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=3:2)

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 deinocheirus Michael Skrepnick—AP

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## Helen Regan


Oct 23, 2014 9:30 AM UTC

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).

_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.

\[[_Nature_](http://www.nature.com/news/fossils-reveal-beer-bellied-dinosaur-1.16203)\]

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