 In 1996, Anusuya Chinsamy, an expert on the microstructure of fossil bones, examined bone material from "Timimus" and "Leaellynasaura" and discovered they exhibited different bone histology.The ornithischian showed a continuous rate of bone deposition, while the coelurosaur had a cyclical pattern of bone formation, which suggested "Timimus" may have hibernated in colder months.A possible "Timimus hermani" or related form from the Strzelecki Group near Inverloch, Victoria left a fossil of the first phalanx of its third toe with a depressed fracture on the plantar surface.