Memorize these and recognize 30.1% of all Dinosaurs clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the Stegosaurus | 7 | Along with the famous plates that ran down its back, it also had 4 tall, deadly spines on its tail |
| 2 | a Triceratops | 7 | This plant-eater is the largest, most common & best known of the horned dinosaurs |
| 3 | the Tyrannosaurus rex | 5 | This "king" of the dinosaurs had a muscular jaw that, it's thought, could rip off 500 pounds of meat at once |
| 4 | Velociraptor | 4 | This dinosaur was swift, but not as fast or as smart as in "Jurassic Park"; it did have that scary sickle-like claw, though |
| 5 | Warm-blooded | 3 | Robert Bakker "heated" up paleontology by suggesting dinosaurs were homeothermic, also called this |
| 6 | Eggs | 3 | In 1922 the first of these to be discovered came from a mommy protoceratops |
| 7 | Vertebrae | 2 | In diplodocus, these individual back bones were hollow, keeping the animal's weight to 12 tons |
| 8 | Tyrannosaurus | 2 | Tarbosaurus was a close relative of this carnivore, probably the best-known dinosaur |
| 9 | the ostrich | 2 | The 2-legged Struthiomimus was built for speed; its name means "mimic" of this large bird |
| 10 | China | 2 | In 2013 scientists announced that one specimen of Sinosaurus found in this country had gum disease |
| 11 | birds | 2 | The way the human-sized Troodon incubated its eggs provides a link to these, which evolved from one line of dinos |
| 12 | Alberta | 2 | Edmontosaurus, discovered in this Canadian province in 1917, was almost defenseless & was preyed upon by the T-rex |
| 13 | a duckbill | 2 | Like other bipedal hadrosaurs, the Anatosaurus had this feature just like the platypus |
| 14 | a brontosaurus | 2 | We grew up calling the alleged apatosaurus this; to us it'll always be this—so there! |
| 15 | the Apatosaurus | 2 | The first perm. mounted Sauropod skeleton was of this dinosaur once called Brontosaurus |
| 16 | a duck bill | 2 | Montana's state fossil, the Maiasaura, had this type of mouth, like the platypus |
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