What is your favorite dinosaur?
What is your favorite dinosaur?
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)
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 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 grew up in the 80s and 90s, so probably one that isn't considered a dinosaur anymore.
Pachycephalasaurus has always been on of my favorites.
gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken
Allosaurus
Euoplocephalus, because I like me some ank memes, but I wanna be special.
If we included pterosaurs, then anurognathus, because look at him!
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.
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
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.
Cryolophosaurus They have a hat and that's pretty cool.
I like budgies <3 💚💚💚💛💜
My daughter has an awesome dinosaur book that includes several I had never heard of, like the Nigersaurus which had hundreds of teeth. Crazy stuff!
Joe Biden!
Titanosaurus. The one from the Showa era, not the one from the Cretaceous.
Trex!
You should play Arc Survival Evolved it's an amazing game for dinosaur nerds 🤓
Argentinosaurus. Biggest Tree Star eater ever. I think it would be the coolest thing ever to like, mount a dwelling on its back, live on and take care of it.
Your mom
Deeduthnkesauros
The Idon'tgiveafucksaurus. Just does what it wants with no worries.
Probably the dinosaurus
