Dinosaur Facts - Question 5

The answer to T-Rex Facts - Question 4

Which of these dinosaurs lived at the same time as Tyrannosaurus Rex?

Brontosaurus went extinct about 50 million years before Tyrannosaurus Rex lived. It was a large plant-eating sauropod dinosaur that also lived in what is now Western North America.

Stegosaurus was an amoured plant-eating dinosaur that also lived in the Jurassic period. Its large plates and spiked tail were probably used to defend itself. It is believed that it was about the size of a small rhinoceros.

Triceratops lived in the Cretaceous and was a contemporary of Tyrannosaurus Rex. These ceratopsid (horned) dinosaurs were about the size of an African elephant. The largest may have weighed as much as 12 tons.

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