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10 Crazy Hard Dinosaur Facts Only Experts Know!
Think you know dinosaurs? These 10 questions start tricky and get brutally hard, from what 'dinosaur' really means to the strange name for Stegosaurus tail spikes. Play along, keep score and tell us your result in the comments!
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10 Crazy Hard Dinosaur Facts Only Experts Know!: questions and answers
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What does the word 'dinosaur' actually mean? Ancient beast · Terrible lizard · Giant reptile
Terrible lizard – From Greek 'deinos' (terrible) and 'sauros' (lizard).
When did the non-bird dinosaurs go extinct? 6.6 million years ago · 660 million years ago · 66 million years ago
66 million years ago
Modern birds evolved from which group of dinosaurs? Theropods · Sauropods · Ornithopods
Theropods – Technically, every bird alive today is a dinosaur.
A real Velociraptor was roughly the size of a... Horse · Turkey · Lion
Turkey – Movies made it much bigger. It also had feathers.
The asteroid crater linked to the dinosaurs' extinction is in which country? Mexico · Brazil · USA
Mexico – The Chicxulub crater is over 150 km wide.
Who invented the word 'dinosaur' in 1842? Charles Darwin · Mary Anning · Richard Owen
Richard Owen
Who lived closer in time to T. rex: Stegosaurus or humans? Stegosaurus · Humans · Same gap
Humans – Stegosaurus died out about 80 million years before T. rex.
Which giant predator is thought to have hunted in water? Spinosaurus · Allosaurus · Carnotaurus
Spinosaurus – Its tail was shaped like a paddle.
Which was the very first dinosaur given a scientific name, in 1824? Iguanodon · Megalosaurus · Tyrannosaurus
Megalosaurus
What is the nickname for the spikes on a Stegosaurus tail? Spikeclub · Tailblade · Thagomizer
Thagomizer – The name comes from a 1982 newspaper cartoon.