Mononykus olecranus Megalania the echoes of the forest

the echoes of the forest mix with the sound of his running: the splash of water

approximately 165-155 million years ago

Una de sus características más distintivas era la presencia de dimorfismo sexual marcado en la región nasal

algunas vértebras y elementos de la cintura pélvica

esta especie tenía un cráneo distintivo con un pico córneo similar al de un loro

Mononykus olecranus Megalania the echoes of the forestMononykus olecranus was a small alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, known from fossil remains recovered from deposits in the Gobi Desert. Originally described in the early 1990s by Perle, Norell, Chiappe and Clark, this taxon quickly became recognised as one of the most unusual forms among maniraptoran dinosaurs because of the extreme reduction of its forelimbs and the presence of a single functional claw on each