LegendaryHalszkaraptor
Halszkaraptor escuilliei
HALSH-kah-RAP-tor· “Halszka's thief”
🦕 Dinosaur🕰️ Cretaceous🐟 piscivore🦴 Dromaeosauridae
0.6 m
Length
0.3 m
Height
1 kg
Weight
A bizarre little raptor with a swan-like neck, a duck-like snout full of tiny teeth, and flipper-like arms — apparently a semi-aquatic dinosaur that swam after fish, unlike any other known raptor.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~75–71 million years ago
Found in
Mongolia
Discovered
Andrea Cau, 2017
Did you know?
- A semi-aquatic raptor with a swan-like neck and flipper-like arms.
- Its duck-like snout held dozens of tiny teeth for catching fish.
- One of the strangest dinosaurs described this century.
Artwork: Tomopteryx, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.