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Adasaurus
Adasaurus (Ada Lizard) was a bird-like carnivorous dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago, throughout the late Cretaceous Period. (The name comes from the name of a mythological evil demon of Mongolia.)
It has been described as being very alike to Archeopteryx
and its discovery added fuel to the present debate concerning dinosaurs
and birds. Only unfinished fossils have been found, all in Mongolia,
but based mainly in the Gobi desert region.
At six feet (two meters) long and two feet (.7 meters) tall, normally
about he size of a large dog, Adasaurus weighed only 33 pounds (15
kilograms) and may have had feathers. Like Velociraptor, it was
bipedal with a big, sickle-like claw on each foot.
Aspects of the Adasaurus pelvis, which is very alike to that of ornithischians, lead some scientists to believe that it is actually more closely connected to birds than to dinosaurs.
