• Question: how many species of dinosaur were there?

    Asked by lucyluvslemurs to Jo, Kevin, Valeria on 21 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Kevin Mahon

      Kevin Mahon answered on 21 Jun 2012:


      At present we know of around 700 species. These are the ones we;ve described and discovered but obviously there are likely many more we don’t know about yet!

    • Photo: Joanna Cruden

      Joanna Cruden answered on 21 Jun 2012:


      some of the dinosaurs got reclassified by palaeontologists and there may be a third less than we thought we already had according to the National Geographical

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