DINOSAURS QUESTIONS
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Some people insist, not only that this monster exists, but that it is a plesiosaur. What is it?
Imagine two saber-toothed tigresses are mud-wrestling in the La Brea Tar Pits. Centuries later, you might still see their entwined skeletons in the middle of what city?
How many horns did a triceratops have?
Stegosaurus means "roof lizard" and it was named in reference to which of its features?
Who says paleontologists don't have a sense of humor? When Jenny Clack of the University of Cambridge discovered a fossil amphibian, she called it Eucritta melanolimnetes. What does this mean?
Sue, the world's largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, makes her home at the Field Museum. What city would you find Sue in?
There are two orders of dinosaurs: Saurischia and Ornithischia. What's the difference between them?
The first birds, mammals and flowering plants first appeared approximately 240 million to 65 million years ago, in what "Age of Reptiles"?
Which of these is not one of the three periods in the Mesozoic Era?
Found fossilized in the rocks of Jurassic age, Archaeopteryx is the oldest known example of what animal?
Herodotus may have been describing fossilized dinosaur skeletons when he wrote about what mythical eagle-lion hybrid?
In paleontology, the debate whether dinosaurs were endothermic or ectothermic is really a debate over what?
Although its name literally means "egg thief," what dinosaur hatched the first eggs ever discovered by human beings?
How would the different species of Ichthyosauria have gotten around?
First found near the Lena River in Siberia in 1806, by botanist Mikhail Adams, the wooly mammoth, aka Mammuthus primigenius, turned out to be an extinct species in what family?
The Devonian period, the fourth division of the Paleozoic Era, is named for Devonshire, which is found in what country, where that period's sedimentary rocks were first studied in the 1830s?
If you use dendrochronology to date something, what are you doing?
A meteor crater called Chicxulub is the "smoking gun" that probably proves that dinosaur extinction can be traced to an extraterrestrial impact on what country's Yucatan Peninsula?
Even though it was about the size of a dog, eohippus is the ancestor of a common animal. What, therefore, does eohippus mean?
What distinctive feature of the Stegosaurus was named the thagomizer, a term that originally appeared in Gary Larson's comic strip "The Far Side"?
Imagine two saber-toothed tigresses are mud-wrestling in the La Brea Tar Pits. Centuries later, you might still see their entwined skeletons in the middle of what city?
How many horns did a triceratops have?
Stegosaurus means "roof lizard" and it was named in reference to which of its features?
Who says paleontologists don't have a sense of humor? When Jenny Clack of the University of Cambridge discovered a fossil amphibian, she called it Eucritta melanolimnetes. What does this mean?
Sue, the world's largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, makes her home at the Field Museum. What city would you find Sue in?
There are two orders of dinosaurs: Saurischia and Ornithischia. What's the difference between them?
The first birds, mammals and flowering plants first appeared approximately 240 million to 65 million years ago, in what "Age of Reptiles"?
Which of these is not one of the three periods in the Mesozoic Era?
Found fossilized in the rocks of Jurassic age, Archaeopteryx is the oldest known example of what animal?
Herodotus may have been describing fossilized dinosaur skeletons when he wrote about what mythical eagle-lion hybrid?
In paleontology, the debate whether dinosaurs were endothermic or ectothermic is really a debate over what?
Although its name literally means "egg thief," what dinosaur hatched the first eggs ever discovered by human beings?
How would the different species of Ichthyosauria have gotten around?
First found near the Lena River in Siberia in 1806, by botanist Mikhail Adams, the wooly mammoth, aka Mammuthus primigenius, turned out to be an extinct species in what family?
The Devonian period, the fourth division of the Paleozoic Era, is named for Devonshire, which is found in what country, where that period's sedimentary rocks were first studied in the 1830s?
If you use dendrochronology to date something, what are you doing?
A meteor crater called Chicxulub is the "smoking gun" that probably proves that dinosaur extinction can be traced to an extraterrestrial impact on what country's Yucatan Peninsula?
Even though it was about the size of a dog, eohippus is the ancestor of a common animal. What, therefore, does eohippus mean?
What distinctive feature of the Stegosaurus was named the thagomizer, a term that originally appeared in Gary Larson's comic strip "The Far Side"?