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?”:
He’s a handsome lad.
My daughter is obsessed with dinosaurs right now and this is my go-to favorite, too. Hers was Parasaurolophus but now is back to T-Rex lol.
Yep, my favorite as well.
It just doesn’t get any cooler than a literal living tank.
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:
I just have a soft spot for triceratops.
Completely understandable! They’re a classic
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.
Dryptosaurus. I like theropods, and this one had the coolest name
And a cool mane too
Cryolophosaurus They have a hat and that’s pretty cool.
Didn’t even know about that one.
Diet: carnivorous
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Food: other animalsYes that’s usually where meat comes from.
This post made me think of Napoleon Dynamite for some reason. And I loved that movie.
I’ve always been partial to the Spinosaurus. Ain’t no cowboy gonna ride ol’ spiney.
Ain’t no cowboy gonna ride ol’ spiney.
“Semiaquatic dinosaur rodeo” is an underappreciated theme. Maybe we’ll see it in the next Jurassic Park.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so probably one that isn’t considered a dinosaur anymore.
I love this question! This made me really happy. My favorite has always been (and remains) the brontosaurus. (Probably can blame “The Land Before Time” for its influence.)
I remember in the early/mid-90s being corrected that brontosaurus wasn’t a dinosaur species, but was actually the same as apatosaurus. Being a stubborn child, I refused to accept this and always considered the brontosaurus, not the apatosaurus, my favorite. I felt so vindicated when the study came out in 2015 that brontosaurus and apatosaurus weren’t the same.
Perhaps that’s why I still stubbornly refuse to let go of Pluto: the minute hope that my favorite planet will be recognized again someday. Alas.
Thunder lizard! Brontosaur’s another classic, ginormous boyes
The Idon’tgiveafucksaurus. Just does what it wants with no worries.
Parasaurolophus has been my favorite since I was 6 years old. I’ve always thought their cranial crests were very cool.
If the Ankylosaurus was nature going “what if tank?” then the Parasaurolophus was nature going “what if dinosaur but cow?”
Chicken.
I just killed my back for the day making a barbeque bath for their little fingers…
Wicked Barbie Srirachasaur
Chickims qualify!
… I wonder what other dinosaurs tasted like?
Probably like chicken.
I still can’t believe the fact that they used to exist
gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken
Archaeopteryx - apparently the first bird ever
