Dinosaur Trivia Questions And Answers
Dinosaurs were a diverse group of
animals that first
appeared during the Triassic period, 231.4 million years ago, and were around
for how long?
A: 135 million years.
The frills and crests of some dinosaurs, like the theropods
were likely used for sexual or aggressive displays, although little is known
about dinosaur what?
A: Mating and territorialism.
Theropods engaged in active aggressive confrontations as
revealed by what?
A: Bites and head wounds.
What event led to the extinction of most dinosaur groups at
the close of the Mesozoic Era?
A: The Cretaceous–Paleocene extinction.
Using fossil evidence, how many species of non-avian
dinosaurs have paleontologists identified?
A: Over 1,000 different species.
Every continent has evidence of dinosaurs by both extant
species and what?
A: Fossil remains.
Some dinosaurs were herbivorous, others were what?
A: Carnivorous.
Elaborate display structures such as Horns or crests and
other elaborate display structures are common to what?
A: All dinosaur groups.
It is thought that building nests and "what "are also
traits shared by all dinosaurs?
A: Laying eggs.
The largest sauropod dinosaurs may have grown to lengths of
58 190 feet and heights of 30 feet, but many dinosaurs were what?
A: Small, some no bigger than a chicken.
What does the word dinosaur mean?
A: Terrible lizard.
Through the first half of the 20th century most of the
scientific community believed that dinosaurs were sluggish and what?
A: Cold-blooded.
The latest research however, suggests that dinosaurs were
active animals with elevated metabolisms and numerous adaptations for what?
A: Social interaction.
In the Gobi Desert in 1971, dinosaur fossils were
discovered that showed a Velociraptor attacking a what?
A: Protoceratops.
Which kind of dinosaurs were the largest and heaviest?
A: Sauropods.
During the era of the dinosaur, the smallest sauropods were
the "what" in their habitat?
A: Biggest animal.
Giant prehistoric mammals like the Paraceratherium were
dwarfed by the giant what?
A: Sauropods.
Only modern "what" approach or surpass sauropods in size?
A: Whales.
Cannibalism amongst some species of dinosaurs was confirmed
by tooth marks found where?
A: Madagascar in 2003.
Only a tiny percentage of animals ever do what?
A: Fossilize.
Most of the fossils that are recovered are just bits and
pieces of bones, not complete skeletons, and fossil impressions soft tissues are
what?
A: Rare.
The tallest and heaviest dinosaur known from good skeletons
is Giraffatitan brancai which used to be classified as a species of what?
A: Brachiosaurus.
How long is longest complete dinosaur skeleton , the
diplodocus discovered in Wyoming in the United States?
A: 89 feet.
What is the name of largest known carnivorous dinosaur
which could be up to 60 feet long and weight up to 18,000 pounds?
A: Spinosaurus.
Except for birds, the smallest dinosaurs were about the
size of what?
A: Pigeons.
The smallest non-avialan dinosaurs were those theropods
most closely related to what?
A: Birds.
Some behaviors which are common in birds, and crocodiles,
were also common among what?
A: Dinosaurs.
Tracks of thousands of herbivores indicate that duck-bill
dinosaurs may have moved in large herds, like the what?
A: Buffalo or the African Springbok.
Dinosaurs laid amniotic eggs with hard shells made mostly
of calcium carbonate and were usually laid in a what?
A: Nest.
Many non-avialan dinosaurs often laid eggs in communal
nests and the males incubated the what?
A: Eggs.
When laying eggs, females dinosaurs grew a type of
bone
between the hard outer bone and the marrow of their limbs called what?
A: Medullary bone, which is rich in calcium and used to make eggshells.
The discovery of medullary bone in a Tyrannosaurus rex
skeleton allowed paleontologists to establish the "what:" of a fossil dinosaur
specimen?
A: Sex.
It seems from the fossil record, that all dinosaurs cared
for their young either before or shortly after the eggs what?
A: Hatched.
