Dino Dig
Palaeontologists identify dinosaurs by comparing combinations of fossil features—such as skulls, horns, plates, claws, limb proportions, and tails—rather than guessing from one bone.
What your child will figure out
- Excavate a fossil carefully until enough connected skeletal evidence is visible.
- Identify familiar dinosaurs from accurate combinations of skull, body, limb, and tail features.
- Explain which visible feature supports an identification without relying on size or movie portrayals.
- Transfer feature comparison to close look-alikes in generated adaptive digs.
The levels
- The giant-jaw slab
Predict from a partly revealed fossil, finish the excavation, observe a deep skull and two-fingered arms, and identify T. rex.
- The three-horn slab
Act carefully across the skull, count three horns, and distinguish Triceratops from other famous dinosaurs.
- The spiky-back slab
Observe back plates and four tail spikes, identify Stegosaurus, then cite those bones as evidence.
- The feather clue
Explain why a small feathered skeleton with a raised sickle claw is Velociraptor rather than a movie-sized monster.
- The high-shoulder mystery
Transfer feature comparison to two long-neck look-alikes by using Brachiosaurus limb proportions and high shoulders.
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