

Trying to envision how it lived and died takes us back in time and deep into the story of how the earth and life upon it evolved." We have a dinosaur new to science, related to birds, but thoroughly different from most animals known. He continued, "Visitors will learn about the life and death of an amazing animal from the cretaceous period in the age of dinosaurs. The exhibit highlights and celebrates the importance of basic research and the knowledge and insights that flow from that research." This unique dinosaur and the information that comes from it adds greatly to our knowledge and understandings of life in the distant past. Robert Breunig commented, "MNA is incredibly excited and proud to present this major new exhibition featuring a significant paleontological discovery by the museum's scientists. Was this animal truly carnivorous as indicated by its shared ancestry with forms like Tyrannosaurus rex? How did it use its three slashing sickles on each hand? Did this small-headed predator actually prey on plants?" "In the past two decades, new studies have regrouped therizinosaurs with carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaurs," noted Gillette, "but there are many questions. And the lifestyle of these lumbering, pot-bellied, sickle-clawed forms has been debated for decades MNA's skeleton fills in some major gaps in what is known about therizinosaur anatomy and habits. Most dinosaurs in this mysterious family are known only from partial skeletons. But when we found peculiar bones of the massive hips, we knew we had a sickle-claw dinosaur. "From that first toe bone, we thought maybe we had a big 'raptor' (an agile, hunting dinosaur). Gillette, exhibit curator and MNA's Colbert chair of Vertebrate Paleontology. "We weren't thinking 'therizinosaur' at first, because at that time they were known only from Asia," said Dr. The dinosaur's identity was a mystery well into the excavation.

But how did the whole animal get buried in a seafloor, 60 miles from shore? The initial discovery, a single toe bone, led to the recovery of the nearly complete skeleton. A freestanding skeleton, cast from the original bones of the 13-foot-tall, one-ton, sickle-clawed, and feathered dinosaur, is the first mounted interpretation of this long-lost animal's stance and posture.Īll dinosaurs lived on land, but this one was found in a location that was the bottom of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, an ancient sea that covered the middle of North America. On display are real 93-million-year-old bones excavated near Big Water, in the desert landscape of southern Utah. See the newest and strangest dinosaur in all of North America at MNA's stunning new major exhibit Therizinosaur-Mystery of the Sickle-Claw Dinosaur, that opened Sunday, Sept. He can even take out a fighter's entire strength cage in one fell swoop.Īlthough this type of character is powerful, they are often slow, but in the previous KOF IV, it was relatively easy to connect with combos, but I am looking forward to seeing what adjustments will be made in this title! King of Dinosaurs.FLAGSTAFF-A once-in-a-lifetime find in 2000 by Museum of Northern Arizona paleontologists led to the discovery of the most complete therizinosaur skeleton ever found. He has powerful striking techniques and command throws, and is quite powerful if he can get into the opponent's pocket.

King of Dinosaurs" is a wrestler, so he is basically a melee fighter. The CV is Hikaru Hanada, as in the previous work ! I don't mean to be indelicate, but Hikaru Hanada also appeared in " FATAL WOLF MARK OF THE WOLVES "! I've seen his physique before, I've heard his voice before, and many of his techniques are familiar to me.īut it would be churlish to try to uncover the identity of the masked wrestler! The King of Dinosaurs is the King of Dinosaurs! He is a large wrestler wearing a Tyrannosaurus mask. The character trailer for the " King of Dinosaurs," a masked villain who first appeared in the previous KOF IV game, has been released!
