Minmi
...backLike an ankylosaurus, but without the club
- Name: Minmi
- Pronounced: Min-mee
- Period: Early Cretaceous
- Name means: Minmi crossing (location of discovery)
- Length: 3m (10 ft)
- Weight: 1 tonne
- Location: Australia
Minmi was a small armoured dinosaur of the ankylosaur family. Smaller and less well armoured than the ankylosaurus, minmi was nevertheless able to evade predators due to bony plates covering its body.
Feeding on low growing vegetation, which it nipped off using its beak, minmi roamed the earth in the late cretaceous period.
Despite being weighted down by its armour, its thought that minmi would be able to move relatively quickly, evidenced by the length of its legs.
Minmi is also notable for being the dinosaur with the shortest name.
"Minmi is a great dinosaur name to listen out for if you're trying to convince people your six month old sibling can already talk."