DAILY NO. 8 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five dinosaurs objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 8, 2026, with the measured size of each, the reference it was compared against, a source you can check, and how the community's guesses landed. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: an Ankylosaurus measures 8 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, a Triceratops at 9 m.
The tail club weighed tens of kilos and could swing hard enough to break bone.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an Ankylosaurus when it sits beside a Triceratops — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Tyrannosaurus rex measures 12.3 m (length / span), which is 1.4× as big as the reference, a Stegosaurus at 9 m.
A large T. rex reached around 12.3 metres long.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Tyrannosaurus rex when it sits beside a Stegosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an Allosaurus measures 8.5 m (length / span), which is 1.1× as big as the reference, an Ankylosaurus at 8 m.
The common large predator of its day: far more Allosaurus fossils exist than T. rex ones.
Common miss: players tend to compress an Allosaurus when it sits beside an Ankylosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: an Iguanodon measures 10 m (length / span), which is about 1.1× smaller than the reference, an American school bus at 10.7 m.
Its thumb spike was first reconstructed, wrongly, as a horn on the nose.
Common miss: players tend to inflate an Iguanodon when it sits beside an American school bus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Brachiosaurus measures 22 m (length / span), which is 1.5× as big as the reference, a Spinosaurus at 15 m.
Brachiosaurus held its neck upward, making it far taller than long-tailed sauropods of similar length.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Brachiosaurus when it sits beside a Spinosaurus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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