After a certain age people stop asking you what your favorite dinosaur is, and I think that’s sad.
My current one’s the Anchiornis, because it’s in the same clade as birds so it’s in their family tree, and it really looks like a prototype of a bird. It had 4 wings for example, but it already looked very birb-y:
(Figured I’d just turn an earlier comment into an actual post because why not)
Ankylosaurus! Tail club, armor plates, what’s not to love?
Ah yes, when nature went “what if tank?”:
HAHA YES!
BONK
My daughter is obsessed with dinosaurs right now and this is my go-to favorite, too.
Came here to say Parasaurolophus. Apparently one well-preserved specimen allowed scientists to take a stab at what it sounded like… I wish I could hear what the soundscape was like 65 million years (or more) ago! https://piped.video/watch?v=QtpSOpUDCb8
Me as a kid, as I also loved turtles. This was the time when dinosaurs saw turtles and said ‘hold my beer.’
He’s a handsome lad.
Yep, my favorite as well.
It just doesn’t get any cooler than a literal living tank.
Fun fact: the nubs on the tail club are called osteoderms and the tail spikes on a stegosaurus is called a thagomizer.
Same. I think it’s because of the movie “Dinosaur”. I love Url!
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I just have a sweet spot for triceratops.
My favorite cartoon as a kid had a triceratops at a hero. I don’t remember much about it and can’t find it listed online but it might have been from 1970s and I really just remember the triceratops charging at the bad guys, shooting lasers out of his horns
Herculoids?
I Think you found it! THANK YOU
The name “Herculoids” seems familiar and the Wikipedia description of Tundro is right on!
However the thumbnails don’t seem to be quite the appearance I remembered, but maybe that’s just poor memory
Woo-hoo, go, Tundro
Edit: maybe my memory is conflating multiple shows but this must be part of it. Holy crap, how did I like this? Watching it now, it was so bad
And how did this pedo episode ever air? “Hey kids, come on into my white windowless van. I’ll take you far from here and make your wishes come true”. This could have used a little stranger danger!” Mania, but relates that
Bionatops from He Man?
No, I never saw he-man as a kid
Same. Because triceratops have none.
It’s like a rhino with even more armor and horns, what’s not to like?I used to think liking triceratops is dumb when there’s likes of centrosaurus and styracosaurus, but over the years I’ve come to appreciate the classic design.
Design. Right.
Movie depictions of Triceratops rub me the wrong way. Never liked Sarah in Land Before Time and my daughter loves Ice Age Buck Wild and the triceratops is the bad guy in that, too. They do triceratops dirty.
Actually guy in buck wild may be a monoclonius 🤔
I’m boring, and still like Stegosaurus best. Gotta love that Thagomizer.
I’m boring
We’ll have none of that here! Nothing wrong with liking an old classic, because I mean come on:
Poor Thag Simmons…
That Stegosaurus vs T-Rex scene in Disney’s Fantasia is probably the reason why this is my favorite.
Pachycephalasaurus has always been on of my favorites.
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Head butting problems to make them go away since 85.8 Mya
Chicken.
Duck beats chicken in every way except tastiness
What are you talking about? Ducks are like richer chickens.
It also wins on tastiness! I’m my book anyway. Crispy fried duck. Peking duck. It’s basically all brown meat. Delicious.
A well prepared duck is much tastier than chicken. Chicken is just much easier to cook.
How is tastiness the thing ducks wouldn’t be better at??
Spinosaurus!
Gigantic crocodile-faced sail-finned bitey boy supreme.
same
same 2
Archaeopteryx - apparently the first bird ever
One of the first we know of at least! And they looked much more bird-y than my fave Anchiornis:
Euoplocephalus, because I like me some ank memes, but I wanna be special.
If we included pterosaurs, then anurognathus, because look at him!
Patagotitan mayorum. I think that it’s the largest that we know about - around 40m large. Herbivore, I can’t help but think on it as a dino-giraffe: eating leaves, nesting its eggs, not giving too much of a fuck about the small critters nearby.
Stenonychosaurus (née Troodon) because as unlikely and silly an idea as it was I always found the whole “how intelligent could they have become if they hadn’t gone extinct” thought experiment fascinating.
I also have a soft spot for Struthiomimus just because it’s such a fun word to say.
Oh you mean the weird “dinosauroid” thing?
It’s always been Allosaurus
Team allosaurus too! I recently got to see this one:
https://www.marqueyssac.com/a-dinosaur-in-the-garden/?lang=en
At the risk of sounding like a basic bitch, I’m going to go with T-Rex. Sure he has ridiculously silly arms, but he gets a pass because he could bite through a car. It’s a prime case of be careful who you pick on in school.
T.rex is the goat and I’m convinced more people haven’t said it only because it’s too ‘obvious’
T Rex eats the goat.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so probably one that isn’t considered a dinosaur anymore.
I still can’t believe the fact that they used to exist
Right? And what’s really wild is that birds are literally dinosaurs. Not just descended from dinosaurs, but classified as feathered theropods and the only known living dinosaurs
But haven’t they extincted by the astroid?
No they haven’t, if you go outside you might even see some!
Most dinosaurs did go extinct! Now there’s only the avialan “branch” left which includes all modern birds, and their extinct ancestors like eg. the Archaeopteryx
If we are accepting non-dinosaur but ancient creatures, my favorite is the anomalocaris :) it’s just a goofy lil guy with a mouth snoot. Plus, they never say no to a snack. (They’re at the end.)
