Image: Microraptor fossil from a 130-million-year-old forest/Spencer Platt/Getty Images
About This Quiz
Birds are - quite literally - living dinosaurs. Our quiz will test your knowledge of the fluffy, downy and winged dinos of the bygone Mesozoic Era, from little Microraptor to the enormous Yutyrannus.
All three of these dinosaurs appear in "Jurassic Park" (1993), but none are depicted with feathers on-screen. Which genus probably had some plumage in real life?
Parasaurolophus
Triceratops
Velociraptor
Archaeopteryx was a famous bird-like dino with wings and a toothy snout. In what geologic period did this creature live?
the Triassic Period
the Jurassic Period
the Cretaceous Period
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Ornithomimus was a feathered dino that sprinted through North America about 75 to 66 million years ago. What does its name mean?
bird mimic
ostrich mimic
chicken mimic
Yutyrannus, a fluffy relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, lived on what continent?
North America
Africa
Eurasia
A fossil that may represent the oldest 'modern fossil bird' was found in 2020 and given this exciting nickname.
Megachicken
Wonderchicken
Superchicken
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Here's one who definitely couldn't fly: The turkey-sized Shuvuuia had stubby arms topped with one huge claw apiece. How do some scientists think these appendages were used?
to pick their noses
to rip open insect mounds
to grab ahold of mates
Various dinos - feathered species included - are preserved with clumps of rocks where their stomachs would've been. What do scientists call those?
gastroliths
orogenies
tillites
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