Nothing quite like it, a dinosaur with two sicklelike claws on each
foot, was known to live in the final period of the age of great
reptiles. Little wonder fossil hunters in Romania were astonished when
they unearthed remains of a distant relative of Velociraptor, the
familiar single-claw predator of fi
erce repute, and saw its unusual stocky limbs and double-clawed feet.
The discoverers reported on Monday that the dinosaur, the size of a
gigantic turkey, was a meat-eating creature that lived more than 65
million years ago in the Late Cretaceous period. They named it Balaur
bondoc, which means “stocky dragon.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/science/31dino.html?ref=endangeredandextinctspecies
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