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Segnosaurus

Segnosaurus is a genus of large-bodied therizinosaurid dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous. Discovered in the Gobi Desert in southeastern Mongolia in the 1970s, incomplete but well-preserved specimens included the lower jaw, neck and tail vertebrae, the pelvis, the shoulder girdle, and limb bones. Parts of the specimens have since gone missing or become damaged. Named in 1979, Segnosaurus ('slow lizard') is estimated to have been about 6–7 m (20–23 ft) long and to have weighed about 1.3 metric tons (1.4 short tons). It was bipedal, with the trunk of its body tilted upwards. The head was small with a beak at the tip of the jaws, and the neck was long and slender, adapted to browsing. The forelimbs were robust, with three-fingered hands bearing large claws, and the feet had four toes. The pubic bone was turned backwards, as in birds. Segnosaurus and its relatives are thought to have been mainly herbivorous, unlike most other theropods, and slow-moving. (Full article...)

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April 12: Easter (Western Christianity, 2020); Holy Week begins (Eastern Christianity, 2020); Yuri's Night; Cosmonautics Day in Russia (1961)

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627 – King Edwin of Northumbria was baptised by Bishop Paulinus of York.
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Charles Foster (April 12, 1828 – January 9, 1904) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1871 to 1879, and later served as the 35th governor of Ohio from 1880 to 1884. In 1891, he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Benjamin Harrison, serving until 1893 before retiring.

This picture is a line engraving of Foster, produced around 1902 by the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP), as part of a BEP presentation album of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury, which was reportedly given to Secretary Lyman J. Gage.

Engraving credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by Andrew Shiva

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