LegendaryBalaur
Balaur bondoc
bah-LA-oor BON-dok· “stocky dragon”
🦕 Dinosaur🕰️ Cretaceous🥩 carnivore🦴 Dromaeosauridae
2 m
Length
0.5 m
Height
15 kg
Weight
A bizarre island-dwelling raptor from Cretaceous Romania with a stocky build and TWO sickle claws on each foot instead of one. It evolved its strange features in isolation on a prehistoric island.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~70 million years ago
Found in
Romania
Discovered
Zoltán Csiki, 2010
Did you know?
- Had two enlarged sickle claws on each foot, not the usual one.
- Evolved its stocky, unusual body in isolation on a Cretaceous island.
- Its name means 'stocky dragon', after a dragon of Romanian folklore.
Artwork: Emily Willoughby, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.