Dinosaur Facts

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Question 1

During which geological era did non-avian dinosaurs live, spanning the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods?

Question 2

What 10-kilometer-wide extraterrestrial object struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event?

Question 3

What modern group of living animals are classified by phylogenetic taxonomists as direct avian dinosaurs?

Question 4

What massive herbivorous titanosaur discovered in Argentina is considered one of the largest land animals in history, weighing around 70 metric tons?

Question 5

Which famous predatory theropod dinosaur possessed a distinctive 1.8-meter-tall dorsal neural spine sail and hunted in river systems?

Question 6

What British comparative anatomist coined the scientific term 'Dinosauria' in 1842, meaning 'terrible, powerful lizard'?

Question 7

What 19th-century scientific rivalry between Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope led to the discovery of over 130 dinosaur species?

Question 8

What defensive arrangement of spiked bone structures at the end of a Stegosaurus's tail is colloquially known as a 'thagomizer'?

Question 9

Contrary to early depictions in movies, fossil impressions have confirmed that Velociraptor and many dromaeosaurid dinosaurs were covered in what?

Question 10

What is the most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever discovered, sold to Chicago's Field Museum in 1997?

During which geological era did non-avian dinosaurs live, spanning the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods?