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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP01 Nov 2025 3:42 p.m. PST

"The largest fully-preserved dinosaur claw has been discovered during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of southeastern Mongolia. Named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, the previously-unknown Cretaceous dinosaur had two-digit hands with lethal curved claws nearly a foot long. The newly-discovered fossil preserved both of the claws of both hands, plus the keratin sheath of one of the digits. The keratin sheath adds more than 40% to the length of the claw…"

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