LegendaryFalcarius
Falcarius utahensis
fal-KAIR-ee-us· “sickle cutter”
🦕 Dinosaur🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Therizinosauria
4 m
Length
1.4 m
Height
100 kg
Weight
A transitional therizinosaur from Utah caught mid-way between meat-eating ancestors and the plant-eating giants of its family — it had leaf-shaped teeth for plants but still a fairly ordinary theropod body.
When
Early Cretaceous, ~126 million years ago
Found in
United States
Discovered
James Kirkland, 2005
Did you know?
- A 'missing link' between meat-eating theropods and plant-eating therizinosaurs.
- Its leaf-shaped teeth show it was shifting to a plant diet.
- Hundreds were found together in a Utah bonebed.
Artwork: Dibrangosaurus, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.