Dino Dana Game of Bones (2017– ) Online

Dino Dana Game of Bones (2017– ) Online

In this two-part special, Dana creates an elaborate board game called the Game of Bones that brings out the competitive side of her family as they play out what happened when a meteorite ended the reign of the dinosaurs.

Scientists commonly believe that the extinction of the dinosaurs was caused by an asteroid striking the present-day Mexican town of Chicxulub around 66 million years ago.

The asteroid strike that caused the sudden extinction of three-quarters of the Earth's animal and plant species has been dubbed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

Some scientists theorize that the sound made by a Tyrannosaurus rex may have been more like an ominous low rumble than a loud roar.

The largest Tyrannosaurus rex tooth ever found was 12 inches long.

The average Tyrannosaurus rex lived to the age of 30 years old.

The Deinosuchus was almost twice the size of a saltwater crocodile.

The Deinosuchus weighed 12,000 pounds.

Unlike dinosaurs, Deinosuchus grew for its entire life by about a foot a year.

Deinosuchus looked remarkably like the modern-day crocodile, only much larger, growing to lengths up to 35 feet.

It's likely that Deinosuchus was able to spring up out of the water to ambush large dinosaurs and drown them before eating them.

Growth rings in the bony scales, or osteoderms, along Deinosuchus' back suggest that it had an optimum lifespan of over 50 years.

Fossil records show that the Microraptor may have had a varied diet that included mammals, reptiles, birds and fish.

The Microraptor's long wing feathers likely made their forearms minimally useful for capturing prey.

The Microraptor had wings on each of its four limbs.

At a full-grown 9 tons, the Giganotosaurus was a bit larger than Tyrannosaurus rex, which it also predated by about 30 million years.

Where the T. rex surpassed Giganotosaurus was brain size; Giganotosaurus had a brain the size of a banana, whereas T. rex's brain was wider.

Amateur fossil hunter Ruben Dario Carolini gets the credit for discovering the first Giganotosaurus specimen in 1993; scientists acknowledged him by giving the dinosaur the species name G. carolinii.

The Troodon was alive during the Cretacous Period, approximately 76 million years ago.

The Troodon was originally mistaken for a lizard, then a megalosaurid, then a pachycephalosaurid, then finally given its own family, the troodontids.