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Almas

Say it: AL-mas

Name means: “wild man or snowman from Mongolian mythology”1

Ate: MeatRaptorsLate Cretaceous

Almas was a tiny, bird-like dinosaur that lived in the desert of Mongolia. It was a smart hunter with big eyes and sharp teeth, but it was no bigger than a turkey!1

Lived

84 to 72 million years ago2

Late Cretaceous

Fossils found in

Ukhaa Tolgod, Ömnögovi Aimag, Mongolia2 1

Food

Meat2 1

Length

1.5 to 2 m1

estimate based on known material

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

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How long was it?

as long as 4 house cats nose to tailas long as 11 bananas end to end

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Fun facts

Almas had a very short snout, like a puppy, which is unusual for a troodontid dinosaur.1

Its skull was only about 8 centimeters long, much smaller than other adult troodontids from the same time and place.1

Almas had a unique spike-like process on its ischium (a hip bone) that no other troodontid had.1

The third chevron (a bone under the tail) of Almas was more than three times as long as the tail vertebra above it.1

Almas lived about 75 to 71 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous, in a sandy desert.1

Its name comes from Mongolian folklore, where 'Almas' is a wild man or snowman.1

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Scientific name: Almas
Named by: Pei et al. 20172
Group: Raptors
Family / clade: Troodontidae2
Classification: Theropoda > Troodontidae2
Age of the rocks: 84 to 72 million years (Campanian)2
Rock formations: Djadokhta2
Countries: Mongolia2
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database2
Discovery: Almas was discovered in 1993 by a joint expedition of the American Museum of Natural History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences at Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. It was named and described by Rui Pei and colleagues in 2017.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure whether Almas was fully grown or a juvenile, because its bones show some adult features but it is very small.1

Where the facts come from

digitallibrary.amnh.org (digitallibrary.amnh.org)
Almas in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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