⛏️ Dig Site: whose bones are these?

How to play

Tap the sand, or drag your finger across it, to brush it away. You don’t have to clear it all: as soon as you think you know, pick one of the three boxes. Each box shows what the animal looked like, so you can match the bones to the shape. Get it right and the whole skeleton appears, with a link to that animal’s page.

Clues in the bones

• A very long neck and tail: a long-necked plant-eater, like Brontosaurus or Argentinosaurus.
• Horns and a frill on the head: a horned dinosaur, like Triceratops.
• Plates or spikes along the back: Stegosaurus or one of its cousins.
• Wings made of one long finger: a pterosaur, a flying reptile that wasn’t a dinosaur.
• Flippers instead of feet: a sea reptile that swam while dinosaurs walked on land.

How real fossil hunters dig

Real digs go slowly, with small brushes and picks, and every bone is photographed and mapped before it moves. Big bones are wrapped in plaster, like a cast for a broken arm, for the trip to the lab. Read Fossils: how we know for the whole story. The skeletons in this game are Peabody’s simple drawings of where the bones go, not museum skeletons.