![]() ![]() A third finger has become so reduced that it is just a tiny bone in the flesh of the animal's hand. The thumb has a large claw while the second finger is more slender. The fingers on the 90-million-year-old fossil are similar to those of tyrannosaurs. This new dinosaur's "arms are short – about 2 ft long – which is less than the length of the thigh bone, and they have weak muscle attachments and poorly developed articulations indicating they had little strength," Peter Makovicky, associate curator of dinosaurs at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago who co-led the team that discovered Gualicho, describes in an email to the Monitor. Gualicho shinyae, discovered in Argentina in 2007, is named and described in a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE. Denied asylum in Israel, Eritreans are welcomed by Canadian Jews
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