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Published: 2009-02-07 10:22:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 2813; Favourites: 58; Downloads: 70
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Drawing of Beipiaosaurus inexpectus, a primitive segnosaur, based on new discoveries which show it had a thick coat of long, large, stiff, simple feathers on top of its undercoat of more traditional dino-fuzz protofeathers. Segnosaurs/therizinosaurs have always been weird among theropods--big arms, bigger claws, long neck with beaked, plant-munching skull, short tail, semi-erect posture, expanded gut that likely housed a big ol' pot belly, and now these werid prickly quill-like things.Wouldn't want to meet one in the woods at night is all I'm sayin'.
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Shouldn't "segnosaur" be therizinosaur?
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Segnosauria was named in 1980. Therizinosauria was named in 1997. So, IMO Segnosauria should be the preferred name
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Since Maleev named Therizinosauridae in 1954, shouldn't the ICZN grant him authorship of Therizinosauria?
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That rule only applies to family-group taxa. Therizinosauria isn't a superfamily, subfamily, tribe, etc. So Therizinosauroidea has priority over Segnosauroidea but Therizinosauria/Segnosauria don't enter into it.
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Badass bird/pangolin/ground sloth hybrids. Sweet!
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Mommy, mommy look, a Beipiaosaurus! Can I pet it? Please , please, please...
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Thanks! Definitely weird.. the new specimen kinda reminds me of a Muppet 
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