A South Korean-led team of researchers has successfully reconstructed the mysterious dinosaur called the Deinocheirus mirificus, which means “unusual horrible hand.”
 
The team led by researcher Lee Yuong-nam at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources built an accurate reconstruction of the dinosaur for the first time using fossils discovered in the Gobi Desert.
 
The research team said the Deinocheirus had a hunched back like a camel and was eleven meters in length and six meters in height.
 
Originally, researchers had only the fossils that were discovered in 1965 by a Polish-Mongolian expedition team. The pieces included the dinosaur’s shoulders and forelimbs that had sharp claws measuring two meters long. With the limited amount of resources, researchers presumed the dinosaur was a carnivore.
 
But Lee’s team discovered additional fossils belonging to the Deinocheirus in the Gobi Desert in 2006 and 2009. With the added pieces and further study, the team discovered that the dinosaur was actually a megaomnivore that lived in mesic environments.
  
The team’s research results were issued in the latest edition of the science journal, Nature.