Therizinosaurus

5 days ago - For maniraptoran standards, Therizinosaurus obtained enormous sizes, estimated to have reached 9 to 10 m (30 to 33 ft) in length. In 2010, Gregory S. Paul estimated in his book The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs that the animal weighed around 3 tons. However, the estimate has been revised ...

With broad hips and a pot belly, this dinosaur was perhaps the strangest-looking of all dinosaurs. An adult Therizinosaurus is thought to have weighed about 6 tonnes, that’s as heavy as a large Tyrannosaurus rex. It lived in the same area of today’s Mongolia as the notorious Velociraptor, ...

November 5, 2025 - Therizinosaurs spanned a large ... Suzhousaurus. Therizinosaurus itself, obtained the top dimensions of the group, growing up to 10 m (33 ft) long and weighing over 5 t (11,000 lb), dimensions that make the genus among the largest-known theropods....

1 week ago - After the discovery of related species Nothronychus, the debate over its appearance ended. While its diet remains unconfirmed, Therizinosaurus was originally thought to be a carnivore, at the point when it was incorrectly theorized to be a much larger animal with a radically different body plan.

Therizinosaurus, meaning 'scythe ... therizinosaurid (previously known as segnosaur). It could grow up to 10 meters (33 feet) long and reach nearly 6 tonnes in weight. Therizinosaurus......

June 19, 2009 - Therizinosaur, group of theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous (roughly 100 million to 66 million years ago) in Asia and North America and were characterized by their relatively small skulls, leaf-shaped teeth, and extended fingers with extremely long and robust claws.

April 4, 2022 - The approximated length of Therizinosaurus is around 33 feet long.

Therizinosaurus is a genus of herbivorous dinosaur from the therizinosaurid family that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period and can grow to a weight of more than 4,000kg.

3 weeks ago - The related "Nanshiungosaurus" ... representatives, reaching the top dimensions of the group, they grew up to 10 m (33 ft) long weighing over 5 t (11,000 lb)....

At 50 centimetres long, Therizinosaurus’s hand claws were enormous.

August 19, 2022 - By modern standards, the size/structure/features of therizinosaurus are ridiculous, especially for a non-carnivore. But, the fossil evidence exists.

May 6, 2025 - It was hard to reach any conclusive size estimates just on the basis of its claws, but additional fossil discoveries in the 1970s helped paleontologists to reconstruct this dinosaur as a 33-foot-long, five-ton, bipedal behemoth.

April 6, 2025 - Based on the available fossil evidence, it is estimated that this dinosaur could reach lengths of up to 33 feet and stand about 20 feet tall. However, these estimates are subject to change as more fossils are discovered and studied.

March 28, 2022 - While most of the other theropods used only three toes, the feet of the Therizinosaurus rested on four toes while walking and standing. The arms and the legs were 2.5 meters (8 feet) each. They had huge claws on the forelimbs measuring up to ...

Answer: Therizinosaurus was among the largest theropods, quite a few species were much larger than it (one of which, Deinocheirus mirificus, actually lived alongside it) but it was probably the tallest. From left to right: Therizinosaurus cheloniformis, Deinocheirus mirificus, Tyrannosaurus rex,...

Therizinosaurus ('scythe lizard', from the Greek therizo meaning 'to reap' or 'to cut off' and sauros meaning 'lizard') was a very large therizinosaur (previously known as segnosaur). It could grow up to 10-12 meters (33-40 feet) long and reach 3-6 tons in weight.

May 27, 2024 - Examination of the Nemegt Formation reveals that Therizinosaurus lived in woodlands and riparian areas. It thrived in enclosed canopy forests with plenty of foliage that it could eat. The climate was likely rather temperate, with cold, dry winters and hot, wet summers. In terms of present equivalents, the area may have resembled the swamplands of the Okavango Delta in modern-day Botswana. Due to its enormous size, Therizinosaurus likely had few to no natural predators once it reached full maturity.

October 15, 2023 - Therizinosaurus cheloniformis is believed to be taller but Tyrannosaurus rex is larger. ... This. Width is also important in measuring size, and T-rex had more body fat.

Therizinosaurus was 10 meters long, thag being 33 feet, SIXTEEN FEET TALL, that being five meters, and weighing 4,500- 5400+ kilograms, which is 5 - 6 tons. Gigantoraptor was ten hundred inches long, weighed and stood 4,267,200,000 nactometers tall.

The taxonomy of therizinosaurs ... in the ensuing decades, but few remains of Therizinosaurus itself have been found. What is known is that it was one of the last therizinosaurs to evolve, and it reached huge sizes comparable to the biggest carnivorous therop...