JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It might look like something from the newest action movie, but it's what Dr. Barry Albright discovered on a dig in Utah.

"I'm sure it will stay as one of the top discoveries of my life," said Albright, a paleontologist at the University of North Florida.

He and a team of scientists from other schools uncovered a 92 1/2-million-year-old dinosaur, coming from a rare group called Therizinosaurs. This one is called a Nothronychus Graffami.

Albright said this new species is related to famous dinosaurs like the T-Rex and Velociraptor. But he said this one isn't as menacing as it looks.

"They have these big giant claws on their front hands that look like the kind of claws a Raptor would use to grab its prey, but they weren't for prey, they were used for bringing down branches to eat leaves," Albright said.

Albright and his group members found the bones back in 2000, but it has taken until now for them to excavate it and study it.

Now, they've proven it is a new species, the first of its kind found in North America.

Albright believes the dinosaur was 10 feet tall and 12 feet long and its skin had what might be described as feathers.

"It was amazingly exciting, particularly when we found out it was a Therizinosaur, that these things are so rare, and all the sudden we've got these things in North America, and we've got a lot of it, and it's a big one," Albright said.