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Mystery of the horrible hands solved

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A pair of newly discovered 70-million-year-old fossils from Mongolia — including material previously lost to poaching — reveals the true nature of one of the most enigmatic dinosaur species, Deinocheirus mirificus. See Letter p.257

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Figure 1: A dinosaur emerges.

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  1. Thomas R. Holtz Jr is in the Department of Geology, and in the Department of Paleobiology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.,

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Holtz, T. Mystery of the horrible hands solved. Nature 515, 203–205 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13930

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