Where’s my ankylosaurus gang at?
Me! Always thought that club was badass
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Nice!
Badass club, badass spikes, badass plates, AND a vegetarian? What a spectacular specimen.
Yo, me too! Though as a kid I thought it was anklyosaurus, and somehow related to ankles.
Unless we’re allowed to include extant dinosaur species. In which case the bush stone-curlew is my fav. ❤️ those adorable screemy bois.
Definitely ankle related. Think how it can shatter ankles with that tail.
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When my wife drives and we come to a complete stop, if the car next to me has their window down I usually try to ask them their favorite dinosaur. So far only one person has gotten really mad at me, most people just get confused.
How dare you bother me in public! /s
You mainly do it to amuse your wife don’t you, you delightful mischievous bastard.
Why isn’t this trending on TikTok?
Triceratops was always my fav.
Horn gang represent!
There’s dozens of us (if you count lurkers)
I’m a stegosaurus man myself.
Absolutely. I don’t know what it is about them but yeah, stegosaurus are cool.
For me, I think it’s because they remind me of Godzilla.
Oh yeah, I can se that. I’m not sure why I fixated on stegosaurus but man, if you asked me at age 5 who my best friend was id probably have said, “Stegosaurus!”
Feathered T-Rex. The theory is that those useless little arms are actually supposed to be wings makes more sense. Do they fly? No, and neither do ostriches. Probably glide tho.
With wings that tiny I doubt a T-Rex was doing much gliding either, considering its size.
Maybe falling with style? No, probably not that either.
They Naruto run after you. Thats gotta be it lol
The atmosphere was different then.
That enabled animals to grow as large as they did, and it enabled massive pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus to exist. And even Quetzalcoatlus, which is much lighter and had much larger wings than T. rex, has been the subject of debate as to whether and to what extent it could fly. Both existed in the late Cretaceous period.
the atmosphere 66 million years ago wasn’t that different to the atmosphere today, the reason why pterosaurs like quetzalcoatlus was able to grow to such massive sizes was because they had extremely light skeletons. higher oxygen levels did allow arthropods to grow to giant sizes during the carboniferous, but it would have little effect on how large vertebrates could grow.
Dinosaur lungs are much more efficient than mammal lungs. Their bones are lighter, too.
It’s also why birds can fly so much higher and be so much larger than bats.
I’m not comparing dinosaurs to mammals though. I’m comparing them to pterosaurs. Or more specifically, I’m comparing the specific dinosaur in question (T. rex) to the largest and most likely to struggle with flying of the pterosaurs, (Q. northropi).
T. rex was, according to my quick search, at least 5000 kg. Q. northropi was just 250 kg at the higher end of estimates. The dinosaur had an armspan less than a metre, while the pterosaur’s was in excess of 10 times that.
That enabled animals to grow as large as they did, and it enabled massive pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus to exist.
I wasn’t responding to comparing dinosaurs to pterosaurs. I was responding to the part about them being big because of the atmosphere.
There’s a number of reasons we don’t have brontosaur-sized elephants. The differences in the atmosphere explains far less than hyper-efficient lungs and light bones.
Oh I see. Good to know!
It wasn’t different enough that those chicken wings would let a 15,000 lb critter fly. It had more oxygen, which was helpful for letting critters get big (esp insects), but it wasnt physically thick.
That’s the joke
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I like the idea that their feather ratio would be more like a chicken or a turkey… and they would just be there absolutely chonky birds…
One idea is that T Rex arms were used to latch onto prey. Their arms were short, but very muscular.
The would have been about as useful for gliding as a rear spoiler on a car.
Probably glide tho.
Something way back in my ancestry just cowered deep in a hole and I felt it.
tyrannosaurs didn’t have the advanced feathers seen on birds, so it wouldn’t be possible for them to have wings
Brontosaurus. Just a gigantic chill dude.
I don’t know…After watching Primal, I can never look at a Bronto the same way again…
chickens are definitely my favourite dinosaur, tastiest one plus they lay big eggs.
Found the guy who never ate fried microraptor wings.
yet to find it in local stores sadly, and i’m unwilling to order food online.
Ankylosaurus, give me a living tank with a club for a tail that could likely damage a real tank.
Another Anky vote here!
Club-Style thagomizer club represent!
I like Allosaurs.
I like someosaurs.
I like dinosaurus
Oh hell yeah!
Allosaurus had a lot to like. Great choice
Triceratops people hold strong!
Archaeopteryx
It is to our understanding of dinosaur & avian evolution what Lucy is to our understanding of human evolution. Also it looks cool.
Diplodocus, because I love the name
Do you say Dip-lod-o-kuss or Dip-low-dock-uss?
This is why we have the IPA
Growing up is learning your favorite dinosaur isn’t actually a dinosaur. (mine was pterodactyl)
Growing up is learning your favorite bird is a dinosaur
Ravens.
Hey, I’m technically more correct than everyone who chose dimetrodon, pterosaurs, plesiosauroidea, or crocodilians.
Corvids are particularly awesome.
I always like pterodactyls, specifically the classic big lizard ones. I do have a tiny Dimetrodon in my pc case though that I got out of a crane machine.
Pterodactyls aren’t dinosaurs, FYI: they’re pterosaurs. It doesn’t matter in the least, but I have a 5-year-old so I’m learning a lot about prehistoric reptiles.
Nor is dimetrodon haha. They’re all excellent though
There’s two big groups of four-limbed vertebrates: amphibians (like frogs), and amniotes (like us and birds). Amniotes developed into two groups: synapsids (mammals) and saurapsids (lizards, birds, turtles, etc.).
Dimetrodon was a synapsid that ruled the world tens of millions of years before the first dinosaurs evolved.
That makes it really cool, actually, precisely because it isn’t a dinosaur. Dimetrodon is to us as brotosaurus is to chickens: a really interesting great great etc uncle.
Agreed!
That moment when someone mentions something and it brings back old memories. I had a big pterodactyl as a kid, sold as a plastic model kit to assemble. Had it hanging from the ceiling for years, and had long forgotten it.
I did the wood skeleton dinosaur models. I had a few of them as a kid and might do a few now.
Pterodactyls are terrifying. Good choice!
Pterrifying
I married a Dactyl and they’re the best anything in the ever.
