Thursday, September 26, 2013

Dinosaurs 101


Looks like this one is dancing to the beat of a different drummer!
I think we'll call her Mim.



Harpymimus
(pronounced HAR-pee-MIME-us)
 [a Greek bird-woman monster]  was a therapod dinosaur, a bipedal meat-eater that lived during the about 119- 97.5 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. It had a beak and 10 - 11 cone shaped teeth in its lower jaw.No one really knows what Mim ate. She had tapered, three-fingered hands. This extremely fast-running dinosaur had thin, long-shinned legs and a light-weight body. It was about 6.5 feet (2 m) long and may have weighed about 275 pounds (125 kg). 
 This bird-like dinosaur is known from a skull and a few bones found in Mongolia. Harpymimus was named by Barsbold & Perle in 1984. The type species is H. okladnikovi.

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