DAEJEON, South Korea, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- It's a duck. It's a camel. It's an ostrich. No, it's Deinocheirus mirificus, the duck-camel-ostrich dino. Deinocheirus mirificus translates as "unusual horrible hands." But it's not just the hands of D. mirificus that are strange, its whole body is an odd hodgepodge of awkward features -- the nose of a duckbill, the sail-like hump of a camel, the outstretched neck of an ostrich, not to mention the long arms and human-like hands.
"Even for dinosaurs, it's peculiar," Thomas Holtz, a paleontologist at the University of Maryland, told Businessweek. "It does emphasize the fact that we need to keep on going out in the field to look for things, because we're still just scratching the surface."