1. What is a hominid?

2. This now extinct, flightless bird once inhabited the island of Madagascar. The bird stood about 10 feet tall and weighed upwards of 1,000 pounds. Name it.

3. The mastodon was a forerunner to the elephant. On what continent have most mastodons' remains been unearthed?

4. The largest mammal to ever walk the Earth could browse branches like a giraffe with its 25-foot height. It weighed around 25 tons. Can you name it, and, for bragging rights, its present day descendants?

5. In the movie "Jurassic Park", West African frog DNA is used to fill in gaps on the dinosaur DNA sequence. Why is this significant?

Answers

1. The term "hominid" is normally used to describe human-like primates and relatives of humans.

2. Elephant Bird

3. North America

4. Paraceratherium. Its descendant is thought to be the Rhinoceros.

5. Some types of West African frogs can change their sex in a single-gender environment. The genes used to engineer the dinosaurs in the movie allow the dinosaurs to breed even though they were originally all female.

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