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
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.
!ankmemes@sh.itjust.works could use more content from fellow Ankthusiasts!
Same. I think it’s because of the movie “Dinosaur”. I love Url
Spinosaurus!
Gigantic crocodile-faced sail-finned bitey boy supreme.
same
same 2
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.
I know they’re not dinosaurs, but I like pterosaurs a lot. Their wings look cool and I bet a flock of them in the sky would be a crazy sight!
The larger ones would have been absolutely fucking terrifying:
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?”
gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken
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.
Therizinosaurus! When I saw the previews for the new Jurassic World movie and they teased it, I got chills. I was so stoked.
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:
Mine is the Pachycephalosaurus. I love it so much I use it as my profile picture. I got attached to it because cranidos is my favorite pokemon.
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.)
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’
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
tricerytops
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.
