Segnosaurus is a genus of large-bodied therizinosaurid dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous. Discovered in the Gobi Desert in southeastern Mongolia in the 1970s, incomplete but well-preserved specimens included the lower jaw, neck and tail vertebrae, the pelvis, the shoulder girdle, and limb bones. Parts of the specimens have since gone missing or become damaged. Named in 1979, Segnosaurus ('slow lizard') is estimated to have been about 6–7 m (20–23 ft) long and to have weighed about 1.3 metric tons (1.4 short tons). It was bipedal, with the trunk of its body tilted upwards. The head was small with a beak at the tip of the jaws, and the neck was long and slender, adapted to browsing. The forelimbs were robust, with three-fingered hands bearing large claws, and the feet had four toes. The pubic bone was turned backwards, as in birds. Segnosaurus and its relatives are thought to have been mainly herbivorous, unlike most other theropods, and slow- moving.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1822:

Greek War of Independence: Ottoman troops began a massacre of tens of thousands of Greeks on the island of Chios. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chios_massacre

1910:

SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Zr%C3%ADnyi

1980:

Canadian athlete Terry Fox embarked on an east–west "Marathon of Hope" with a prosthetic leg, beginning in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and intending to reach Vancouver, to raise funds for cancer research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox

2014:

A fire broke out in the hills near Valparaíso, Chile, eventually destroying at least 2,500 homes and leaving approximately 11,000 people homeless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Valpara%C3%ADso

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

spraddle: 1. (transitive, Canada, Caribbean (West Indies), US) To spread apart (the legs). 2. (transitive, Canada, Caribbean (West Indies), US) To spread apart the legs of (someone or something). 3. (intransitive, Canada, Caribbean (West Indies), US) To lie, move, or stand with legs spread. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spraddle

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.   --Gospel of Luke https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke