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WFS: Dinosaur Diary: AVIMIMUS

Name Means: “Bird mimic” Length: 5 feet (1.5 m) Pronounced: AYV-ee-MIME-us Weight: 45 pounds (20 kilos) When it lived: Late Cretaceous – 95 MYA Where found: Mongolia, China     Avimimus was discovered by Russian paleontologist Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov during the exploration of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian paleontological expedition in the summer of 1973, at the Udan-Sayr […]