When thinking about extinct animals, people usually think of dinosaurs, relying on their limited knowledge gained from the Jurassic Park films, which often, palaeontologists have now discovered, portrayed them inaccurately. Scientists estimate that 99.9% of all plants and animals that have ever lived are extinct.
The word dinosaur is from the Greek deinos (“terrible”, “horrible”, “fearful”) and sauros (“lizard”).
Depicted below, are twenty extinct animals, can you put a name to them? They are not to any scale. Some names are short; others are tongue twisters. To help, the names you can match up with are listed below.
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| Allosaurus | Apatosaur | Baryonyx | Brachiosaurus | Dilophosaurus |
| Stygimoloch | Triceratops | Tyrannosaurus Rex | Velociraptor | Woolly Mammoth |
| Parasaurolophus | Plesiosaurus | Pterosaur (pterodactyl) | Sabre Tooth Cat | Spinosaurus |
| Dilophosaurus | Dimetrodon | diplodocus | Dodo | Stegosaurus |
