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Which herbivore, whose name means 'three-horned face', sported a huge bony frill and roamed North America at the end of the Cretaceous?

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1easyWhich herbivore, whose name means 'three-horned face', sported a huge bony frill and roamed North America at the end of the Cretaceous?

πŸ’‘ TriceratopsπŸ”

Triceratops carried three horns and a broad bony frill on its head, and lived alongside Tyrannosaurus in late Cretaceous North America.

2easyWhich plated dinosaur, with a spiked tail, has a name meaning 'roof lizard'?

πŸ’‘ StegosaurusπŸ”

Stegosaurus, the 'roof lizard', had a tail armed with spikes and a row of large upright plates along its back.

3easyWhich 1993 Steven Spielberg film brought dinosaurs back to life on an island theme park?

πŸ’‘ Jurassic ParkπŸ”

Jurassic Park's dinosaurs were created by combining animatronics from Stan Winston's studio with pioneering computer-generated animation.

4easyWhich armoured dinosaur swung a heavy bony club on the end of its tail?

πŸ’‘ AnkylosaurusπŸ”

Ankylosaurus was covered in bony armour plates and carried a heavy tail club that could potentially have broken the bones of attackers.

5mediumWhich British anatomist coined the word 'dinosaur' in 1842?

πŸ’‘ Richard OwenπŸ”

Richard Owen coined the term from Greek words meaning 'terrible lizard' and later helped found London's Natural History Museum.

6mediumWhich crater, buried beneath Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, marks the asteroid impact linked to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs?

πŸ’‘ ChicxulubπŸ”

The Chicxulub crater lies partly under the Gulf of Mexico, and the impact that formed it is widely linked to the end of the non-avian dinosaurs.

7mediumWhich sail-backed, crocodile-snouted predator of Cretaceous North Africa is thought to have hunted fish?

πŸ’‘ SpinosaurusπŸ”

Spinosaurus had a long crocodile-like snout and a tall sail on its back, and is widely thought to have hunted fish in the rivers of North Africa.

8mediumWhich American palaeontologist was the great rival of Edward Drinker Cope in the 19th-century 'Bone Wars'?

πŸ’‘ Othniel Charles MarshπŸ”

Marsh's feud with Cope produced many famous dinosaurs, including Stegosaurus, Triceratops and Allosaurus, as each tried to out-discover the other.

9hardWhich sickle-clawed predator, described by John Ostrom in 1969, helped spark the 'dinosaur renaissance' by suggesting dinosaurs were active and warm-blooded?

πŸ’‘ DeinonychusπŸ”

Deinonychus, meaning 'terrible claw', had a large sickle-shaped claw on each foot, and Ostrom's study of it changed how scientists pictured dinosaurs.

10hardWhich dome-skulled dinosaur has a name meaning 'thick-headed lizard'?

πŸ’‘ PachycephalosaurusπŸ”

Pachycephalosaurus had a skull dome of solid bone that could be very thick, giving the dinosaur its name.

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