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.
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.
!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
I just have a soft spot for triceratops.
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
Dino Riders?
A triceraton from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
Dinosaucers?
Beyond that, not sure what futuristic triceratops there was.
Completely understandable! They’re a classic
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:
gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken
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.
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:
Therizinosaurus! When I saw the previews for the new Jurassic World movie and they teased it, I got chills. I was so stoked.
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.)
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
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.
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.