
Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as new species
Shri rapax fossil Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels A new species of Velociraptor-like dinosaur from the Gobi desert in Mongolia had giant claws and exceptionally thickset hands, which may have enabled it to take down larger prey. The name of the species, Shri rapax, was inspired by “the rapacious features we see in…