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Dinosaur Trivia
Stomp through 150 jaw-dropping questions about Earth's most legendary creatures, from the Triassic dawn to the asteroid that ended their reign. Test your knowledge of T. rex, sauropods, feathered raptors, and the paleontologists who unearthed them.
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What distinctive feature ran along the back of a Stegosaurus?
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Who formally named Tyrannosaurus rex in 1905?
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Dinosaurs belong to which broad group of egg-laying vertebrates?
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On how many continents have dinosaur fossils been discovered?
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Which giant predator had a tall sail-like structure of spines along its back?
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Which T. rex specimen, sold at Sotheby's in 2024 for $44.6 million, set the all-time record for fossil prices?
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Which 2009 study used melanosomes to reconstruct color in which feathered dinosaur first?
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Which Canadian formation, located in Alberta, has been called the world's richest dinosaur graveyard?
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The Gobi Desert, famous for fighting Velociraptor fossils, is located mostly in which country?
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Which 2008 'eight-armed' Patagonian abelisaur is famous for its bizarre lower-jaw protrusion?
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Which giant ostrich-like dinosaur from Mongolia stood over 16 feet tall and had a duck-like bill?
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What flying reptile is often confused with dinosaurs but actually belongs to a separate group?
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Which alleged sauropod, named in 1985 from a single cervical vertebra, was a Korean discovery later considered dubious?
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Which spiked, plated dinosaur is often called a 'living tank' of the Jurassic?
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Which English fossil hunter, born in 1799, made groundbreaking marine reptile finds at Lyme Regis?
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Patagonia's badlands, home to many giant dinosaurs, lie in which country?
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Long-necked, four-legged plant-eating giants like Brachiosaurus belong to which group?
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Which subfamily of dromaeosaurids is Velociraptor itself most closely placed within?
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Which dinosaur is now believed to be the only one definitively known to have been semi-aquatic?
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Which legendary fossil hunter discovered the first T. rex skeleton in Hell Creek in 1902?
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Which Argentinian theropod was named to highlight that it might have outweighed Tyrannosaurus rex?
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The KโPg extinction was previously known by which letter abbreviation before scientists renamed it?
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Which Texas-found Brachiosaurus relative is one of the tallest dinosaurs ever discovered?
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Which Cretaceous dromaeosaur had a snout shaped like a duck, suggesting a semi-aquatic lifestyle?
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Which middle Mesozoic period gave its name to a famous dinosaur movie franchise?
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Archaeopteryx fossils come almost entirely from which fine-grained limestone of Bavaria?
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What is the technical name for fossilized dinosaur dung?
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Which crater on the Yucatรกn Peninsula is believed to be the impact site that ended the dinosaurs?
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Which dinosaur was the first ever whose name (1825) honored a living animal, the iguana, due to its tooth shape?
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Which heavily armored Triceratops cousin had the largest skull of any land animal in history?
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Which Wyoming fossil quarry was the famous epicenter of the Bone Wars?
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Liaoning Province, source of many feathered dinosaur fossils, is in which country?
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Which Cretaceous African fish-eating predator had a long, crocodile-like snout?
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What did dinosaurs lay to reproduce?
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Which paleontologist behind Jurassic Park's scientific advice argued T. rex was primarily a scavenger?
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Which English doctor discovered Iguanodon teeth in 1822, making him the first to describe a herbivorous dinosaur?
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Which modern animals are considered the direct living descendants of dinosaurs?
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Which giant short-armed predator of Cretaceous Argentina is one of the largest theropods ever found?
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Dinosaurs are traditionally split into two main groups based on hip structure: Saurischia and what?
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Which Late Cretaceous tyrannosaur was found across Alberta, Canada and is named for its province?
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What anatomical feature, recently confirmed in Patagotitan, allowed the largest sauropods to support their immense weight?
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Which sauropod's name means 'arm lizard' because its front legs were longer than its back ones?
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Which feathered Liaoning dinosaur named in 2015 had bizarre membranous bat-like wings?
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Which sauropod, described in 2014, was named for the steel-clad warships because of its enormous, hard-to-kill body?
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What is the nickname of the most complete T. rex skeleton ever found, displayed in Chicago?
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What name is given to the swallowed stones some dinosaurs used to grind plant food in their guts?
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What is the name for a scientist who studies dinosaurs and other ancient life?
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Which dinosaur was named 'egg thief' in 1924 โ based on what later turned out to be its OWN nest?
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Which English anatomist coined the word 'Dinosauria' in 1842?
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What U.S. state is home to Dinosaur National Monument's famous wall of sauropod bones?
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Which Late Cretaceous Romanian dwarf sauropod illustrates 'island dwarfism' on what was once an island?
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Which Mongolian therapod is famous for being preserved in a sleeping, bird-like resting pose?
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Which giant Egyptian sauropod's holotype was famously destroyed in WWII bombing of Munich in 1944?
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Which dinosaur's name translates to 'good mother lizard' because it was found tending nests?
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In Jurassic Park, scientists supposedly extracted dinosaur DNA from a mosquito trapped in what fossilized tree resin?
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What is the estimated body mass of Argentinosaurus, in tons?
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Which giant predatory dinosaur's name means 'king of the tyrant lizards'?
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What do we call the preserved remains or traces of dinosaurs found in rock?
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Which group of duck-billed dinosaurs is famous for its flat, paddle-shaped mouths?
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Which Antarctic dinosaur, discovered in 1991, was the first carnivorous dinosaur ever found on the continent?
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Which crow-sized 'four-winged' Liaoning dinosaur preserved color-revealing pigment cells in 2010?
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Which African dinosaur, painted in classic Disney's Fantasia, is often shown with a long neck and a sail?
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Which 'rooster lizard' was the first non-avian dinosaur found with definitively avian-style feathers (1998)?
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Which formation in the western U.S. is the most productive Late Jurassic dinosaur source on Earth?
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Which 1996 Chinese fossil, Sinosauropteryx, became famous as the first non-avian dinosaur shown to have what?
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Which feathered tyrannosauroid from China, described in 2012, suggests T. rex itself may have had feathers?
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Which final Mesozoic period was when T. rex and Triceratops actually lived?
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Which sauropod found in New Mexico in 1979 was originally nicknamed 'earthquake lizard'?
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What body part of Baryonyx held a fossilized fish, providing direct evidence of its diet?
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Which long-snouted European spinosaurid was discovered in Surrey, England in 1983?
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Which small, sickle-clawed predator was made famous by the 1993 film Jurassic Park?
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Which 1878 Belgian coal mine discovery yielded over 30 complete Iguanodon skeletons in a single find?
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Which giant marine reptile from Jurassic World was a real Mesozoic sea creature?
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Which large bipedal Late Triassic plant-eater is one of the most common dinosaur fossils in Europe?
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What was the name of the single supercontinent on which early dinosaurs first evolved?
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Which spiky-frilled relative of Triceratops sported the most ornate skull frill of any ceratopsian?
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Which 230-million-year-old Argentine carnivore is among the oldest known true dinosaurs?
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Which giant flying reptile of the Late Cretaceous had a wingspan rivaling a small airplane at over 30 feet?
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Which 1947 fossil discovery in New Mexico's Ghost Ranch produced thousands of skeletons of which Triassic dino?
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Which boundary clay layer worldwide records the KโPg impact event in millimeters of dust and ash?
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What was the name of the famous fighting Velociraptor and Protoceratops fossil discovered in Mongolia in 1971?
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Which obscure 'mountain lizard' from Africa might rival Argentinosaurus in length, but is known from too few bones?
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Which crested duck-billed dinosaur could trumpet sounds through a hollow tube on its head?
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What was the original 1892 name Edward Cope gave to a fossil that turned out to be a Tyrannosaurus rex?
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Which Italian dinosaur named in 1998 had remarkable preserved internal organs visible in the fossil?
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What pigment color did Sinosauropteryx fossils reveal in 2010, making it the first dino with confirmed coloration?
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Who directed the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park?
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Which long, low-skulled tyrannosaur cousin from Utah was named for sunlight in its frill bones?
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Which one-fingered Mongolian dinosaur had a single huge claw on each hand?
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What U.S. state's Hell Creek Formation has produced more T. rex specimens than anywhere else?
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The word 'dinosaur' itself translates literally as which fearsome phrase?
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Which Apatosaurus relative was officially restored as a separate genus in 2015 after years of merging?
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T. rex is famous for walking on how many legs?
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Which Madagascar Cretaceous predator had a peculiar large bony bump on its snout?
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Which thick-skulled dinosaur is thought to have used its dome for head-butting contests?
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Which Wyoming dinosaur 'Big Al' is one of the most complete skeletons of which species ever found?
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Which year did the discovery of soft tissue inside a T. rex femur, by Mary Schweitzer, shock paleontology?
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The bony part of a T. rex's head is properly called what?
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Which South American sauropod is often listed among the largest land animals to ever live?
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Approximately how many feet long is the Argentinian sauropod Patagotitan mayorum, described in 2017?
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Which paleontologist's 2014 paper revolutionized Spinosaurus by reconstructing it as a swimming hunter?
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What 1988 animated film follows a young Apatosaurus named Littlefoot?
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Which tiny dinosaur was roughly the size of a modern chicken?
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Which Chicago museum is the permanent home of the famous T. rex 'Sue'?
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Which three-clawed African giant was once mistakenly featured as a 'super predator' rivalling T. rex?
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Which large carnivore was the most common big predator of the Late Jurassic in North America?
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What is the term for a plant-eating dinosaur?
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Which spiny ankylosaur from Britain is famous for the long bony spikes on its shoulders?
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What is a complete, mounted set of articulated dinosaur bones called?
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Which period marked the very beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs?
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Which 1986 book by Robert Bakker popularized the idea that dinosaurs were warm-blooded and active?
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Which famous German paleontologist collected and described the Egyptian Spinosaurus type specimen?
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Preserved dinosaur footprints found in rock are an example of what kind of fossil?
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How many horns did a Triceratops have on its head?
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Dinosaurs lived during which great geological era?
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Which long-necked marine reptile of the Jurassic seas inspired Loch Ness Monster legends?
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Which Yale paleontologist's 1969 description of Deinonychus sparked the modern 'Dinosaur Renaissance'?
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Which 1824 species, described by William Buckland, was the very first dinosaur given a scientific name?
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Which plant-eating dinosaur was the second one ever scientifically named, in 1825?
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Roughly how many millions of years ago did the non-avian dinosaurs go extinct?
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Which Late Cretaceous Mongolian tyrannosaur is essentially Asia's version of T. rex?
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Which tiny four-winged feathered dinosaur from China appears to have glided between trees?
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Which large North American 'raptor' inspired the size and behavior of the Jurassic Park 'velociraptors'?
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Which African Cretaceous dinosaur lent its name to the carcharodontosaurid family because of shark-like teeth?
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What is the name of the badly-preserved sauropod vertebra Edward Cope described in 1878 that could imply the longest dinosaur ever?
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Tyrannosaurus rex teeth are most often described using which adjective?
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Which paleontologist led the 1923 Roy Chapman Andrews expeditions that first found dinosaur eggs in the Gobi?
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Which Cretaceous oddball had massive scythe-like claws nearly a meter long, the longest of any animal ever?
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Which T. rex relative discovered in Saskatchewan in 1991 may be the longest known T. rex specimen?
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Which Romanian Cretaceous dromaeosaur was unusual for having two enlarged sickle claws on each foot?
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What earned Megalosaurus its place in literary history when Charles Dickens mentioned it in the opening of Bleak House?
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Which Triceratops specimen sold for $7.7 million at auction in 2021, becoming Europe's most expensive fossil?
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The Greek root '-saurus' in dinosaur names literally means what?
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Dromaeosaurids โ the 'raptor' family โ are believed to have hunted using which iconic body feature?
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Which famous T. rex skeleton sold at Christie's in 2020 for $31.8 million?
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Which Triassic Argentine predator was once considered the oldest carnivorous dinosaur, with bones first described in 1963?
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Which 240-million-year-old Tanzanian fossil may be the earliest known dinosaur or close relative?
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Which Tendaguru-quarried sauropod, displayed in Berlin, is the world's tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton?
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Which late-Cretaceous Indian volcanic eruptions are sometimes argued as a co-cause of dinosaur extinction?
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Which rare element, unusually abundant at the KโPg boundary, helped Walter and Luis Alvarez prove the asteroid theory?
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Which whip-tailed sauropod has a name meaning 'double beam'?
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Which famous transitional 'first bird' fossil from Germany lived around 150 million years ago?
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Which armored dinosaur is famous for the heavy bony club at the end of its tail?
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Which armored, bipedal early dinosaur from Arizona is sometimes called the 'shield-bearer'?
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What is the term for a meat-eating dinosaur?
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Brachiosaurus is most famous for having which exaggerated body feature?
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Diplodocus and Apatosaurus used which body part as a long, whip-like weapon?
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The bitter rivalry between Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope in late-1800s America is known as what?
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What is the leading scientific theory for what killed off most non-avian dinosaurs?
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Which Texas-named carnivore is currently considered the largest known dromaeosaur, at over 20 feet long?
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