Name Meanings
"D" Words
Dino Trivia
Distinguishing Features
Which one is it?
100
TYRANNOSAURUS REX
WHAT IS "TYRANT LIZARD KING"?
100
THIS IS WHAT PALEONTOLOGISTS DO WHEN THEY'RE DISCOVERING DINOSAURS.
WHAT IS DIGGING?
100
THIS DINOSAUR FROM AUSTRALIA, HENCE ITS NAME, HAS ONLY ONE BONE DISCOVERED.
WHAT IS OZRAPTOR?
100
THIS DINOSAUR HAD 30 INCH LONG CLAWS AND IS THE BIGGEST OF ITS KIND.
WHAT IS THERIZINOSAURUS?
100
THIS UNIQUE DINOSAUR WITH 2 ROWS OF SPINES DOWN ITS NECK HAS A NAME DERIVED FROM THE PLACE IT WAS FOUND.
WHAT IS AMARGASAURUS?
200
TRICERATOPS
WHAT IS "THREE HORNED FACE"?
200
THIS TERM, CREATED BY SIR RICHARD OWEN IN 1841, DEFINES THE OVERALL GROUP OF THESE ANCESTORS OF TODAY'S BIRDS.
WHAT IS DINOSAUR?
200
THIS DINOSAUR HAS SCIENTISTS IN A DEBATE WHETHER IT IS AN ADULT TRICERATOPS OR NOT.
WHAT IS TOROSAURUS?
200
THIS DINOSAUR HAS PLATES ON ITS BACK AND IS ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE DINOSAURS.
WHAT IS STEGOSAURUS?
200
THIS RELATIVE OF STEGOSAURUS HAS A NAME THAT COMES FROM WHERE IT WAS FOUND, THOUGH IT'S VERY UNUSUAL.
WHAT IS CHUNGKINGOSAURUS?
300
DROMAEOSAURUS
WHAT IS "RUNNING LIZARD"?
300
THIS SYNAPSID FROM THE PERMIAN PERIOD IS OFTEN MISTAKEN FOR A DINOSAUR.
WHAT IS DIMETRODON?
300
THIS DINOSAUR FROM THE LATE JURASSIC PERIOD HAS AN ASTEROID NAMED AFTER IT.
WHAT IS BRACHIOSAURUS?
300
THIS DINOSAUR HAS 6-FOOT TALL SPINES ON ITS BACK.
WHAT IS SPINOSAURUS?
300
THIS DINOSAUR PICTURED HERE IS NAMED AFTER THE ONLY BONES EVER FOUND OF IT.
WHAT IS METRIACANTHOSAURUS?
400
ALAMOSAURUS
WHAT IS "OJO ALAMO LIZARD"?
400
AS OPPOSED TO A SYNAPSID, THESE CREATURES' SKULLS HAVE TWO HOLES, HENCE ITS NAME.
WHAT ARE DIAPSIDS?
400
THIS DINOSAUR, WHICH WAS DISCOVERED IN 1902 AND NAMED IN 1905, HAS GONE THROUGH QUITE A LOT OF NAME SYNONYMS.
WHAT IS TYRANNOSAURUS REX?
400
THIS GROUP OF ARMORED DINOSAURS HAVE 100-POUND TAIL CLUBS, WHILE SOME OF THEIR RELATIVES DON'T.
WHAT ARE ANKYLOSAURS?
400
THIS DINOSAUR, WHICH SOME PALEONTOLOGISTS THINK MIGHT BE ANOTHER ALLOSAURUS, HAS A NAME THAT MEANS "KING OF THE LIZARD-EATERS".
WHAT IS SAUROPHAGANAX?
500
SIBIROTITAN
WHAT IS "SIBERIAN TITAN"?
500
THIS DINOSAUR'S NAME MEANS "EMPEROR DRAGON".
WHAT IS DILONG?
500
THIS DINOSAUR HAD A HEART 6 FEET IN CIRCUMFERENCE.
WHAT IS PATAGOTITAN?
500
THIS HADROSAUR HAS A 3-FOOT LONG CREST JUTTING FROM THE BACK OF ITS HEAD.
WHAT IS PARASAUROLOPHUS?
500
THIS DINOSAUR PICTURED HERE IS NAMED AFTER A GREEK FESTIVAL AND THE LATIN WORD FOR "CARNIVAL".
WHAT IS SATURNALIA?