KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -’Dinosauria’ is rooted in Greek and frequently quoted as meaning ‘terrible lizard’. But in coining the term in his report, Owen refers to dinosaurs instead as ‘fearfully great’, acknowledging their large size-significantly surpassing that of any living reptile.

Detailed explanation-2: -Allosaurus (/ˌæləˈsɔːrəs/) is an extinct genus of large carnosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 145 million years ago during the Late Jurassic epoch (Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian). The name “Allosaurus” means “different lizard” alluding to its unique (at the time of its discovery) concave vertebrae.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tyrannosaurus meaning “tyrant lizard", is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur.