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An extraordinarily bizarre-looking species of dinosaur has been discovered in Chinas Gobi desert that could unlock clues as to how an unusual family of vegetarian dinos evolved, scientists say.

The newfound species belonged to a group of large dinosaurs called therizinosaurs, relatives of meat-eating theropods like Tyrannosaurus rex.

“These are without doubt some of the strangest dinosaurs ever found,” said Matt Lamanna, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

“They looked kind of like a gigantic plucked turkey.”