Gallimimus - Meaning:chicken mimic  

Gallimimus (gal-lee-MEEM-us) (also meaning "rooster mimic" and "fowl mimic") was an ostrich-like dinosaur. This lightly-built, fast-running theropod was a long-beaked omnivore (eating plants and animals) from the late Cretaceous period, about 75-70 million years ago.

Gallimimus was found in the Gobi desert in the early 1970's. With a maximum length of 4 to 6 metres (13-20 feet) and weighing as much as 440 kilograms (970 pounds), it was one of the largest ornithomimosaurs. Gallimimus is known from multiple individuals, ranging from juvenile (about 0.5 metres tall at the hip) to adult (about 2 metres tall at the hip).