Although it is a fact that is met with some controversy, fossil fuels still run our world. They power our cars and heat our houses- and they come from dinosaurs, the best animals to ever roam the Earth.

Some exciting news: the rest of the body from a pair of 6 foot long clawed arm dinosaur bones discovered in 1965 was found in Mongolia’s Gobi desert. This dinosaur, about the size of a T- Rex, stood upright, and received the scientific name of Deinocheirus Mirificus. What makes this find so amazing is that the dinosaur is duck-billed, and that the 3 foot long bill was toothless.

Philip Currie, a paleontologist at the University of Alberta, spearheaded the investigation of the bones and confirmed that all the fossils found were of the same species. For all you ostrich lovers out there, you really were born in the wrong millennium. Mika Park, dinosaur and ostrich enthusiast, said, “it would be better if they found an ostrich pterodactyl, but an ostrich land dinosaur is cool too.”

Daniel Bortoluzzi, who wanted to be a paleontologist as a child and pre-teen, spoke to me about this finding. He said that 83 million years ago, during the last years of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the species developed feathers, which were discovered through small holes in recent bone findings. This statement was confirmed by Livescience.com, in their article, T. Rex at 20: How Jurassic Park Evolved. Anna Sasson, a science teacher here at Millennium Brooklyn High School and avid evolutionary scientist, scoffed when talking to me. She said, “You know dinosaurs evolved into birds, right?” This all points to something I believe we will find out any day now, that the  Deinocheirus Mirificus evolved into the modern day ostrich, and quite possibly, that the T-Rex is a descendant of this elegant beast.