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ðŠ Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Life
Giant lizards, flying reptiles and woolly mammoths â can you survive a trip back millions of years?
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What does the dinosaur name 'Triceratops' mean?
Swift thief
Roofed lizard
Terrible lizard
Three-horned face
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The Age of Dinosaurs is split into three periods. Which of these came first?
Triassic
Cretaceous
Quaternary
Jurassic
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Films show Velociraptor as taller than a person. Fossils suggest it was really about the size of what?
A double-decker bus
A horse
A giraffe
A turkey
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About 66 million years ago, a huge asteroid hit Earth and helped wipe out the dinosaurs. It struck near which present-day country?
Russia
Mexico
India
Australia
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Which of these prehistoric animals was a true dinosaur?
Pteranodon
Stegosaurus
Ichthyosaurus
Plesiosaurus
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Mary Anning, a famous early fossil hunter, made her discoveries around which English seaside town?
Lyme Regis
Whitby
Scarborough
Weymouth
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Scientists class birds as living dinosaurs. From which group of dinosaurs did birds evolve?
Ornithopods
Ceratopsians
Sauropods
Theropods
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Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago and T. rex about 68 million years ago. Roughly how far apart in time were they?
About 800,000 years
About 200 million years
About 80 million years
About 8 million years
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Thousands of fossils of Smilodon, a sabre-toothed cat, were found trapped in which famous site?
The Jurassic Coast
La Brea Tar Pits
The Gobi Desert
The Grand Canyon
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The last woolly mammoths survived until about 4,000 years ago on which Arctic island?
Wrangel Island
Svalbard
Iceland
Greenland
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