Test yourself below with actual questions from the competition. Teams of three contestants each from schools throughout the region competed in each of three rounds of questioning about paleontology. Questions on paleontology, and especially about dinosaurs, were posed. Here are some of the actual questions. Edmontosaurus Ichthyosaurus Baryonyx Ornithomimus Question 2.
Archaeopteryx is the earliest fossil that most paleontologists agree is a bird.
Fossils of Archaeopteryx show feather impressions, but the bony skeleton shares many features with theropod dinosaurs. Name one feature found in both theropod dinosaurs and Archaeopteryx that are not found in modern birds. Vertebrates are animals with backbones, such as frogs, snakes, elephants and humans. Paleontologists believe some dinosaurs may have migrated from place to place. Even if this were true, a herd of dinosaurs in Montana could not have migrated to connecticut.