The crew is excavating an ancient kill site. Normally these occur when people of the past have hunted and killed multiple animals, and archaeologists find bones, weapons, and the tools used for butchering and processing the animals.
In this case, it’s an area where a number of Deinonychi have killed and eaten Zephyrosaurs and other prey dinosaur. The bones are all mixed up, and our team have to unscramble them to try and identify which animals are present.
As we don’t want you to get your hands too dirty (at least not before you get to the actual cache!), we’ve done a wordy version of this exercise for you to solve. Each set of words makes a common phrase or idiom – once you’ve solved the anagram!
Unscramble each set of words. Then put the first letter of each new (capitalised) word in a row, that is your certitude solution! For example:
- LICENSE of the BALMS = SILENCE of the LAMBS
- LILTS of the THING = STILL of the NIGHT
Then the answer would be: SLSN
- TASTE of the RAT
- TOP of EAT
- PECKS of STUD
- NIT of AUNT
- SING of the ITEMS
- For the VOLE of the MEGA
- OWE is EM
- BAKER a GEL
- REEF as a DRIB
- BOWL off MATES
- PEAKS of the LIVED
- FETE of LACY
- BREAKS ZONED
- CHARS SOURCE
- LAST of the HEART
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Zephyrosaurus was 2 metres or long and 1 metre high, and had teeth in its beak!
Deinonychus means 'Terrible claw'. This refers to the large, sickle-shaped claw bone on the second toe of each hind foot.
Its discovery was important - in the late 1960s, paleontologist John Ostrom's study of Deinonychus started the debate on whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Ostrom noted the creature's small and sleek body, horizontal, posture, and the enlarged claws on the feet, suggesting the animal was an active and highly agile predator. Before this, the popular conception of dinosaurs had been one of plodding giants.
An artistic interpretation of a Zephyrosaurus being attacked by a Deinonychus.
Fragmentary juvenile specimen of Z. schaffi