Famous dinosaurs by diet and teeth

What you’ll practice

Teeth are some of the best diet clues fossils preserve, and this quiz turns those clues into quick identifications. You’ll connect tooth shape, jaw mechanics, and feeding style to well-known dinosaur names.

Each question uses 4 options and there’s no timer, so you can slow down and reason it out rather than rush.

Difficulty and choosing your setup

Difficulty is mixed on purpose: familiar icons appear alongside less obvious cases where teeth don’t match the “movie version” of a dinosaur. Before you start, choose how many questions you want to play and select an easier or harder difficulty to fit your mood.

Common pitfalls to avoid

Many players over-rely on size or fame instead of dental features, which leads to confident wrong picks. Watch for convergent tooth shapes - different groups can evolve similar tools for similar foods.

• Mixing up serrated slicing teeth (flesh) with peg-like teeth (grabbing) and grinding batteries (plants)
• Assuming every big theropod had the same bite style
• Forgetting that some herbivores had sharp beaks and shearing edges, not “flat cow teeth”
• Ignoring jaw depth and muscle attachment clues that hint at bite force
• Falling for name recognition when the tooth description points elsewhere