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)
And their name means “egg thief”!
And turns out it’s slander!
Oviraptor was originally found together with a big nest of ceratopsian eggs, so it was assumed they fed by stealing those. Years later it was discovered the eggs actually belonged to the oviraptor who was protecting them till death.
Yeah those poor little dinos now get called thieves by everybody just because of an initial misunderstanding
I’m boring, and still like Stegosaurus best. Gotta love that Thagomizer.
That Stegosaurus vs T-Rex scene in Disney’s Fantasia is probably the reason why this is my favorite.
I’m boring
We’ll have none of that here! Nothing wrong with liking an old classic, because I mean come on:
Solid choice.
There was a point in fifth grade when I was into plesioasurs after reading books about the Loch Ness Monster and Mokele Mbembe.
Poor Thag Simmons…
I just have a soft spot for triceratops.
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.
Same. Because triceratops have none.
It’s like a rhino with even more armor and horns, what’s not to like?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
Bionatops from He Man?
No, I never saw he-man as a kid
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.
Completely understandable! They’re a classic
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.
I also have brontosaurus as my favorite (probably also because of The Land Before Time).
Glad you’re still holding out hope for Pluto too!
Thunder lizard! Brontosaur’s another classic, ginormous boyes
I had a plastic brontosaurus toy as a kid that I loved. It had a weird chemical smell to it. 30+ years later, when I hear “brontosaurus” I instantly and vividly swear I can smell it
The Idon’tgiveafucksaurus. Just does what it wants with no worries.
Dryptosaurus. I like theropods, and this one had the coolest name
And a cool mane too
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!
Birds are not real though.
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
Ankylosaurus! Tail club, armor plates, what’s not to love?
Fun fact: the nubs on the tail club are called osteoderms and the tail spikes on a stegosaurus is called a thagomizer.
Yep, my favorite as well.
It just doesn’t get any cooler than a literal living tank.
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.
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
HAHA YES!
BONK
Me as a kid, as I also loved turtles. This was the time when dinosaurs saw turtles and said ‘hold my beer.’
Same. I think it’s because of the movie “Dinosaur”. I love Url
!ankmemes@sh.itjust.works could use more content from fellow Ankthusiasts!
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.
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?
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so probably one that isn’t considered a dinosaur anymore.
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.
Should be a band’s name
Ain’t no cowboy gonna ride ol’ spiney.
Ark players: Hold my beer.
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?”
Pachycephalasaurus has always been on of my favorites.
my little sister (four years old at the time) SHOCKED me when she pointed the dinosaur statue out to me saying its name flawlessly lol
needless to say she loves her dinos:)
Head butting problems to make them go away since 85.8 Mya
