Zoochat Wildlife Quiz

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Both could shed their tails?

 

[Dassie rat]

Not as far as I know, Tetzoo Quizzer.

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

A more serious suggestion; is it something to do with the roof of the skull?

 

[Dassie rat]

No, Tetzoo Quizzer, although it is something to do with the skeleton

 

[Birdsage]

I had to research extinct hedgehogs because this was so obscure. Apparently Proterix was speculated to have been legless in the World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures due to a high number of lumbar vertebrae.

 

[Dassie rat]

That's where I got the information from, Birdsage.

Well done. It's your turn to ask a question.

 

[Birdsage]

What living bird species has the oldest known fossil record?

 

[WalkingAgnatha]

Kagu?

Californian condor?

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Sandhill Crane?

 

[Birdsage]

Sandhill Crane?

You are correct. You may now ask the eighth Prehistoric Life question.

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

In the context of Prehistoric Life, who or what is “the Archbishop “?

 

[Dassie rat]

A Jurassic brachiosaur discovered in Tanzania in the 1930s.

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Indeed. Over to you.

 

[Dassie rat]

A large group of colonial animals was thought to have become extinct in the Carboniferous.

In the 2010s, Jörg Maletz showed that the group still survives.

What is the group?

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Graptolites?

 

[Dassie rat]

That's right, Tetzoo Quizzer.

Well done.

It's your turn for the last Prehistoric Life question.

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Which Dinosaur is known primarily from one bone, preserved by being turned to Opal?

 

[Birdsage]

Kakuru.

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Correct. Over to you.

 

[Birdsage]

What is wrong with most paleoart of Mamenchisaurus?