Q 01/05

In Jurassic Park III, Spinosaurus wins a fight by breaking the neck of which famous rival dinosaur?

A) Triceratops

B) Tyrannosaurus

C) Velociraptor

D) Giganotosaurus

Answer · why

B) Tyrannosaurus

Tyrannosaurus had been the star of the first two films. Jurassic World later answered back: its T. rex smashes straight through a Spinosaurus skeleton...

Q 02/05

The original Spinosaurus fossils were destroyed in 1944 when bombs fell on a museum in which German city?

A) Berlin

B) Dresden

C) Munich

D) Hamburg

Answer · why

C) Munich

Munich was hit by a British air raid on the night of 24–25 April 1944. The museum's director, a fervent Nazi at odds with the man who named the bones,...

Q 03/05

A 2020 study of fossils from the Kem Kem beds showed that Spinosaurus had a tail shaped like what?

A) A paddle

B) A bullwhip

C) A club

D) A spike

Answer · why

A) A paddle

A paddle: tall, thin spines above and below made the tail deep and narrow, like a newt's. In experiments it gave eight times the thrust of a land-livi...

Q 04/05

Scientists often compare the long, low, narrow skull of Spinosaurus to that of which living reptile?

A) A Komodo dragon

B) A marine iguana

C) A python

D) A crocodile

Answer · why

D) A crocodile

A crocodile is the usual comparison for the long, low snout. Its tip flared out to hold a cluster of extra-large teeth.

Q 05/05

Spinosaurus lived in North Africa about 100 to 94 million years ago, during which geological period?

A) Triassic

B) Jurassic

C) Cretaceous

D) Carboniferous

Answer · why

C) Cretaceous

Cretaceous North Africa was a land of rivers and tidal flats. Spinosaurus lived there in the Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous.