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)

  • @Bustedknuckles
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    524 months ago

    Ankylosaurus! Tail club, armor plates, what’s not to love?

      • @lennybird
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        4 months ago

        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.

        • @Pheral
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          54 months ago

          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

      • SSTF
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        134 months ago

        HAHA YES!

      • @Etterra
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        114 months ago

        Me as a kid, as I also loved turtles. This was the time when dinosaurs saw turtles and said ‘hold my beer.’

      • Boozilla
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        64 months ago

        He’s a handsome lad.

    • @CeeBee_Eh
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      94 months ago

      Fun fact: the nubs on the tail club are called osteoderms and the tail spikes on a stegosaurus is called a thagomizer.

    • FlashMobOfOne
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      74 months ago

      Yep, my favorite as well.

      It just doesn’t get any cooler than a literal living tank.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      284 months ago

      I’m boring

      We’ll have none of that here! Nothing wrong with liking an old classic, because I mean come on:

    • FlashMobOfOne
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      54 months ago

      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.

    • Nailbar
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      34 months ago

      That Stegosaurus vs T-Rex scene in Disney’s Fantasia is probably the reason why this is my favorite.

  • @Moghul
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    4 months ago

    I just have a soft spot for triceratops.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      Same. Because triceratops have none.
      It’s like a rhino with even more armor and horns, what’s not to like?

    • @lennybird
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      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 🤔

    • @Klear
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      54 months ago

      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.

    • @AA5B
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      54 months ago

      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

        • @AA5B
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          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 predates that

        • @AA5B
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          24 months ago

          No, I never saw he-man as a kid

          • SanguinePar
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            14 months ago

            Oh ok, hope you find the right answer!👍

      • @WindyRebel
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        14 months ago

        Dino Riders?

        A triceraton from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

        Dinosaucers?

        Beyond that, not sure what futuristic triceratops there was.

  • @atomicorange
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    274 months ago

    Spinosaurus!

    Gigantic crocodile-faced sail-finned bitey boy supreme.

  • Lvxferre
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    214 months ago

    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.

  • ALQ
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    174 months ago

    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.

    • @metallic_substance
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      64 months ago

      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

    • @A_cook_not_a_chef
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      34 months ago

      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!

  • @illumrial
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    144 months ago

    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!

  • @Etterra
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    144 months ago

    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.

    • @HonoraryMancunian
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      94 months ago

      T.rex is the goat and I’m convinced more people haven’t said it only because it’s too ‘obvious’

  • @darkishgrey
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    144 months ago

    Parasaurolophus has been my favorite since I was 6 years old. I’ve always thought their cranial crests were very cool.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      144 months ago

      If the Ankylosaurus was nature going “what if tank?” then the Parasaurolophus was nature going “what if dinosaur but cow?”

  • pruwyben
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    134 months ago

    I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so probably one that isn’t considered a dinosaur anymore.

  • @j4k3
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    124 months ago

    Chicken.

    I just killed my back for the day making a barbeque bath for their little fingers…

    Wicked Barbie Srirachasaur

  • @norimee
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    114 months ago

    Archaeopteryx - apparently the first bird ever

    • @[email protected]OP
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      74 months ago

      One of the first we know of at least! And they looked much more bird-y than my fave Anchiornis:

      • @Klear
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        34 months ago

        One of the first we know of at least!

        Nah, it’s the first one because that’s exactly where we decided to draw the line. Birds have to start somewhere, so why not with archaeopteryx? So it will never change no matter what other species we find.