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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segnosaurus>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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