73 million-year-old dinosaur remains with extremely long hands stuns explorers

A new species of ostrich-like dinosaur, Mexidracon longimanus, has been discovered in Mexico. The 73-million-year-old remains feature extremely long hands, with palms longer than the upper arm. Found in coastal sediments, it may have foraged near water and used its long hands to grab fish. This discovery adds to the growing diversity of ornithomimosaurs in southern Laramidia during the Late Cretaceous period. Mexidracon is the first ornithomimid formally described from Coahuila, Mexico.