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1. This middle-and upper-Triassic predator is well known thanks to a site known as Ghost Ranch, hunted in packs, and could kill prey up to five times its size. It is the oldest ceratosaur and one of the earliest predacious dinosaurs to evolve. Which dinosaur is it?
2. Dilophosaurus was known to be able to spit poison onto its prey, incapacitating it.
3. This bipedal dinosaur is generally believed to be the smallest dinosaur that ever lived. They had very long necks and longer tails. This little dinosaur set off the debate of whether or not birds evolved from dinosaurs because of its many bird-like features. It also made an appearance in the Spielberg film 'The Lost World'. Which dinosaur is this?
4. Which of the following is not a ornithomimid, or bird mimic?
5. This predator's name means 'speedy thief'. One fossil was found in the Gobi Desert that seemed to show it going head to head with a Protoceratops. It was originally found in North America, but is more common in the Gobi Desert.
6. This dinosaur, whose name means 'terrible claw', was an obscure and largely ignored raptor until Yale paleontologist John Ostrom discovered a good specimen in Montana in 1969. Which dinosaur is this?
7. This raptor was more advanced than the rest of the raptors. It had the largest brain for its size of any other dinosaur. It had especially large eye sockets that were set in the front of the skull, which meant the eyes looked forward rather than out to the side. There has been some speculation as to what this dinosaur would have evolved into had the end of the Cretaceous not brought its extinction. Which dinosaur is it?
8. This dinosaur was the most common carnosaur and is found in large numbers in the western United States.
9. The 2001 film 'Jurassic Park III' featured a dinosaur known as Spinosaurus. Is that a real dinosaur?
10. This dinosaur was the first dinosaur to be identified and written up in a scientific paper (1822). At the time it was known only from a lower jaw bone and no complete skeleton had been found by the end of the twentieth century. What dinosaur was this?
11. The undisputed king of the Cretaceous, this dinosaur could have grown to be 50 feet in length, 20 feet tall, and weighed 6 tons. Some may have lived to the ripe old age of 100 years. One skull of this species was 5 feet long. These dinosaurs had the longest teeth of any known dinosaur, sturdy backbones, and muscular necks. Some of these dinosaurs suffered from gout (a disease humans get from eating too much red meat), osteoporosis, and arthritis. What famous dinosaur is this?
12. The dinosaur Apatosaurus (deceptive lizard) is better known by what name?
13. The smallest dinosaur discovered, in the 1970s, (not the smallest to have lived) was what kind of dinosaur?
14. This dinosaur's name means 'different-toothed lizard'. It was a speedy, three-foot long dinosaur that probably holed up in burrows every summer. It had three different kinds of teeth and chewed by grinding its lower teeth lengthwise across its upper teeth. Which dinosaur was it?
15. This duckbilled dinosaur had the biggest crest, a 6-foot long boomerang-shaped crest. Its name means 'similar lizard crest'. Which dinosaur is this?
16. This duckbilled dinosaur was discovered in 1978 in Montana by paleontologist Jack Horner. Its name means 'good mother lizard' because it is known to have cared for its babies, based on the discovery of a nest of fossilized juveniles. This dinosaur may have had a complicated social behavior. Which dinosaur is it?
17. This extremely famous dinosaur's name means 'three-horned face'. It is the biggest ceratopsian, reaching 25 feet in length and 9 feet in height. Unlike most ceratopsians, this dinosaur had no frill windows in its skull - they're solid bone. They appear to have been prey to the fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex, and many pictures show this dinosaur facing off against the Rex. Which dinosaur is it?
18. This dinosaur was a big, 26-foot pachycephalosaur. It was bipedal, beaked, and had a high, dome-shaped skull that could grow to be 8 inches thick. Their skulls were probably used in head-butting contests, like modern-day rams and goats. Their backbones were more closely interlocked than most other vertebrates to absorb the force of the blows. What kind of dinosaur was this?
19. This dinosaur had two rows of plates running down its back and four or eight spikes on its tail. It had a small head and a tiny brain (about the size of a golf ball) and could grow to be about 20 feet long. They most likely didn't run or move very fast, except when in danger; then they could quickly swivel on their long hind legs and bury their 3-4 foot long spikes in a predator. What famous dinosaur was this?
20. Think back to the dinosaur with two rows of plates running down its back and four or eight spikes on its tail. Do scientists agree on their primary purpose?
21. This dinosaur was throroughly covered in armor and had a heavy tail club to protect itself from predators. Even its eyelids were reinforced with bone. If a predator attacked it, it could simply tuck its limbs in and keep its vulnerable stomach beneath it. It survived right up until the end of the Cretaceous. Which dinosaur was this?
22. Do pteradactyls belong to the class Dinosauria?
23. This dinosaur was an ornithopod that got to be about 25 feet long. It was one of the first dinosaurs ever to be found, and it was the second to be named. It was also among the most widespread of all dinosaurs, its fossils have been recovered on every continent except Antarctica. It may have been able to run on two feet as well as on all fours. Standing up it would be about 15 feet tall. It had a large spike located on the thumbs of its front paws. What dinosaur was it?
24. This dinosaur lived in the early Cretaceous and was fairly strange looking. Its name means 'strong claw' because of one extra-large claw on the pointer fingers of its forepaws. It had a crocodile snout and jaws, which hold the most teeth of any known dinosaur. It is believed to have eaten fish (because of partially digested fish scales found inside the fossil) and smaller land animals. It is doubtful that such a large dinosaur could survive only on fish. It would have switched between hunting like a wolf and fishing like a crocodile. What dinosaur is this?
25. Was Elasmosaurus a dinosaur?
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