Kobayashi and his colleagues christened the new therizinosaur, Duonychus tsogtbaatari. The genus name means “double claw”, while the species name honors Mongolian paleontologist Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar.

The species, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, belongs to a group of two-legged dinosaurs called therizinosaurs that lived in central and eastern Asia as well as in western North America during the Cretaceous period around 90 million years ago, researchers say.

Millions of years later, fossilized remains are now revealing the story of a giant, clawed dinosaur that once dominated the Earth. Paleontologists have just unearthed a brand-new dinosaur species in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia,