Height: 6.6 feet (2 meters at the hip)
Length: 26 feet (8 meters)
Weight: 470 kg (700 pounds)
Gallimimus was a speedy predator, the largest of the ornithomimid theropod family. They were called chicken mimics because they probably moved like modern flightless birds. Unlike other meat-eaters, Gallimimus had no teeth. All ornithomimids had small yet long skulls, but that of Gallimimus was exceptionally elongated, due to an elongation of the snout. The snouts of the juvenile specimens are much shorter. This was probably one of the fastest dinosaurs, with speed like a modern cheetah; it could probably run up to 60 mph.
With its small, toothless head, it is believed that Gallimimus probably had a omnivorous diet of insects, small animals, eggs and maybe even some plants. They hand very long fingers and long arms, which they could use for digging or grabbing eggs. They had a much longer neck that any other theropod dinosaur. In Jurassic Park they were shown as moving in a large flock, but we are unsure if that was real or movie behavior.
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