Falcarius was much smaller than other therizinosaurs, weighing around 100 kg.
镰刀龙比其他镰刀龙小得多,重约 100 公斤。
古生物科普
And Falcarius had a much longer neck than most theropods of its size, too.
Falcarius 的脖子也比同体型的大多数兽脚类动物长得多。
古生物科普
It's called Falcarius and it dates back to at least 125 million years ago, in the Early Cretaceous Period.
它被称为 Falcarius,可以追溯到至少 1.25 亿年前的白垩纪早期。
古生物科普
Falcarius shared an environment with a host of dromaeosaurs, troodontids, and early tyrannosaur relatives, so competitive pressure among carnivores was likely pretty high.
Falcarius is a genus of therizinosaurian dinosaur found in the Cretaceous of east-central Utah, United States. Its name is derived from the word "sickle", falcarius in Latin being a sickle cutter, which scientists have used to describe its unwieldy clawed hands.