Dinosaur
Falcarius
Falcarius combined a relatively lightly built body with long forelimbs and conspicuous hand claws.
Falcarius combined a relatively lightly built body with long forelimbs and conspicuous hand claws. It helps show how therizinosaurs acquired their unusual combination of predatory ancestry and plant-processing adaptations.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Falcarius at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Its feeding anatomy is interpreted as adapted to plant food.
- When it lived
- Early Cretaceous
- Group
- Therizinosauria
- Therizinosauria
Beyond the game
The real Falcarius
Falcarius combined a relatively lightly built body with long forelimbs and conspicuous hand claws. It helps show how therizinosaurs acquired their unusual combination of predatory ancestry and plant-processing adaptations.
Its teeth and skeleton help researchers investigate the transition toward more specialised therizinosaurs. The combination of hand claws and plant-processing adaptations makes that history particularly interesting.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: Paleobiology Database and linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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