1. Mayfair and Park Lane in the traditional Monopoly have been transformed into tyrannosaurus and allosaurus…
2. …and the Chance and Community Chest cards are Excavation and Laboratory.
3. Dinosaurs lived on Earth for about 165 million years from 230 million BC to 65 million BC.
4. The word “dinosaur” was coined by the English biologist Sir Richard Owen in 1841 and comes from two Greek words meaning “terrible lizard”.
5. Owen was the founder of the Natural History Museum and thought Darwin was wrong about the forces the drove evolution.
6. The biggest dinosaur was argentinosaurus, 40 metres long and weighing 77 tons.
7. The first dinosaur to be given a name was megalosaurus (great lizard) in 1842.
8. The only dinosaurs in the film Jurassic Park that lived in the Jurassic era was brachiosaurus. All the others all from the later Cretaceous period.
9. The main street in the town of Dinosaur, Colorado is called Brontosaurus Boulevard.
10. The first evidence of dinosaurs was a tooth dug up by English obstetrician Gideon Mantell in 1822.
The Dinosaur version of monopoly is available from the Natural History Museum (nhmshop.co.uk/monopoly-dinosaurs.html)