Құру: Көлденең құмды даланың динозавры

Extinct genus of dinosaurs

the genus of dromaeosaur
Automatic taxobox
| name = Kuru
| fossil range = Late Cretaceous

However, this bibliographic entry is believed to be an error as no such paper is known to exist and it is probably a reference to an unpublished work or an abstract from a conference. This would mean the name "Airakoraptor" is a nomen nudum and is therefore invalid. Napoli and colleagues, in their formal description of Kuru, presume that the name "Airakoraptor" means "Kumis thief", after kumis, also known as "airag" or "airak", a donkey milk product made in Central Asia. In their description, Napoli and colleagues also explicitly state that the naming of Kuru is not a reference to the disease of the same name. In 2006, its surangular bone was described in the paper which named the dromaeosaurid Tsaagan. However, later that year, this specimen was confused with the so called "Zos Wash specimen" found in 1998, which was catalogued under the number IGM 100/3503 and referred to the genus Velociraptor. The holotype was formally described and named in 2021 by James G. Napoli, Alexander Altieri Ruebenstahl, Bhart Anjan Singh Bhullar, Alan Hamilton Turner, and Mark Allen Norell.

The Barun Goyot Formation is similar to the underlying Djadochta Formation in being composed of aeolian dune deposits which primarily preserve small and mid sized animals. Several named lizard genera are known including Gobiderma and Estesia. Mammals were also abundant in the region during the Cretaceous. They are represented by multituberculates such as Catopsbaatar and Nemegtbaatar, metatherians like Deltatheridium, and eutherians like Asioryctes and Barunlestes. Dinosaurs are the most well represented vertebrates from Barun Goyot. There are several ankylosaur fossils including Saichania, Tarchia, Zaraapelta, and an undecribed taxon from the Hermiin Tsav locality. A single sauropod skull is also known from Barun Goyot, and was given the name Quaesitosaurus. Marginocephalians are also present and are represented by the pachycephalosaur Tylocephale and the ceratopsian Bagaceratops, which is the most common animal found in the formation. The most species rich dinosaur group represented at Barun Goyot are the maniraptorans. They include at least four alvarezsaurs (Ceratonykus, Khulsanurus, Ondogurvel, and Parvicursor) and several oviraptorosaurs, such as Nemegtomaia, which are also found in the Nemegt Formation. Dromaeosaurs were also common and included Shri, the possibly semiaquatic Natovenator, and an unnamed taxon. The smallest maniraptorans present were the birds. These included the enigmatic Hollanda, the more well understood Gobipteryx, and numerous fossilized eggs which preserve bird embryos.

Kuru was featured in the "Badlands" episode of the second season of the British American nature documentary Prehistoric Planet. It is one of the most recently described genera featured in the documentary. The episode portrayed Kuru as being a cursorial predator and depicted a female individual stealing an egg from the nest of the oviraptorid Corythoraptor in order to feed her young.