A therizinosauroid dinosaur with integumentary structures from China

Therizinosauroidea (‘segnosaurs’) are little-known group of Asian dinosaurs with an unusual combination of features that, until recently, obscured their evolutionary relationships. Suggested affinities include Ornithischia1, Sauropodomorpha2,3, Theropoda4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 and Saurischia sedis mutabilis12. Here we describe a new therizinosauroid from the Yixian Formation (Early Cretaceous, Liaoning, China)13. This new taxon provides fresh evidence...