Mine's stegosaurus, if anyone cares.

Where's my ankylosaurus gang at?

Me! Always thought that club was badass
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- 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.
- Holy hell, the pipes on those bois
  I just looked up a video, there's just two of them screaming away and it sounds like a whole flock of seagulls
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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
Why isn’t this trending on TikTok?
You mainly do it to amuse your wife don't you, you delightful mischievous bastard.

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.

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.
- The atmosphere was different then.
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.
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...
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.

I like Allosaurs.

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!

Triceratops people hold strong!

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

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
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.
- Pterrifying
I married a Dactyl and they’re the best anything in the ever.

Archaeopteryx

It is to our understanding of dinosaur & avian evolution what Lucy is to our understanding of human evolution. Also it looks cool.

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 would genuinely rather hear what everyone's favorite dinosaur is, than who their favorite sports team is. Yet, society thinks I should care whole lot about the latter...

Deinonychus, definitely :)

Woohoo same here since I was a tiny wee lad But also shout-out to Amargosaurus, they're pretty cool.

Mine are crows and pigeons. Those count, right?

Crow team!

Poking the bear are we?

As long as we are using looser definitions mine are Pleisosaurus for an aquatic, Pterodactyl for air and Brachiosaurus for land.

Brachiosaurus because they look as some kind of fictional creature.

And they're tall bois

I'm just fascinated by the sauropods. The big ones. I'm gonna go with Supersaurus (because super! Lol)

Sci Am article on how sauropods evolved to be huge over and over again

Of all the animals ever to have roamed the planet, the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods stand unrivaled. No other terrestrial creatures have come close to attaining their colossal sizes.

Pterodactyl. And now I have the dinosaur train theme stuck in my head. 🦖

Pterodactyl and its not even close lol.

Its like, dinosaurs are cool, but you know what's cooler? Dinosaurs that can fly

Pterodactyl isn't even a dinosaur!
- What's your favorite pterosaur then?
Dinosaurs can't fly

Spinosaurus until the end.

Falco peregrinus, a small carnivorous dinosaur that preys mainly on other dinosaurs—which it strikes and kills in midair with its claws.

argentinosaurus. Largest land animal to have ever existed. That's my favourite dinosaur.

Legit crying that no one has said spinosaurus yet

I love chickens.

Tastysaurus

As a child, Velociraptor, as an adult I probably wouldn't choose a velociraptor because of how deadly they are. I would probably choose a more friendly docile dinosaur but I honestly don't know what the best one would be.

Apatosaurus

Liopleurodon.

Stego is in my top 5. 👍

Quetzalcoatlus, easy.

All the avian ones.

are you talking avian dinosaurs or current birds that have descended from dinosaurs? or both?
- "Avian dinosaurs" is current birds. The term "non-avian dinosaurs" is often used specifically to refer to what the casual person is usually thinking of when they hear the word "dinosaur".

Iguanodon.

Because they are herbivores and are badass with their killer thumbs. Also they have funny looking faces and probably had a funny walk similar to a kangaroo.

Researches first put their thumb horns on their noses which is hilarious as well.

Iguanodon't

I named my motorcycle Sarah from The Land Before Time. Guess mine is a Triceratops. She got the name because she's punchy and Hella fast. Love you YZF-R6

Therizinosaurus gang, rise up!

Stegosaurus was my favorite too as a kid. These days I've grown more boring ig and I would probably go with T-Rex, but Stegosaurus will always have a place in my heart too.

Probably dino. He was a good boy.

Hard to choose.
Nodosaurus: (mummified then fossilized: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/)
Microraptor: 4 winged dinosaur
Allosaurus
Apatosaurus

If only Sturgeon was a dinosaur..

It is technically prehistoric, which I did not know until now. Same with coelacanths, and they're pretty damn cool.
I don't think my poor, sweet Dunkleosteus really qualifies as what people think of when they think dinosaur, either. But it turned its supportive gill arches into the world's first jawbones!

Mine's Stegosaurus too! Hello buddy!

In truth, the game was rigged from the start!
- I cared.
  And I judge you for your poor choices.
  Best is triceratops, btw.
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Steggy all the way!

Velociraptor all the way, they could kill a T-Rex together.

Not according to the documentary Jurassic Park.

If we are counting anything prehistoric from Ark as a dinosaur then Chalicotherium, if only old school Dino's then Compsognathus.

Mine's Aachenosaurus. It's such an interesting (if sad) story about how science works.

From Wikipedia: Independently in 1887, the name Aachenosaurus was created by the scientist (and abbé) Gerard Smets based on fossilized fragments of material that he thought were jaw fragments from a duck-billed dinosaur (a hadrosaur). However, the fossils turned out to be petrified wood, to the great embarrassment of the discoverer.

So while he advanced science by reporting his discovery and advancing a theory about what it was, he will forever be remembered mostly for how very wrong he was.

Brontosaurus!

Diplodocus. Far superior in looks to the brontosaurus

I wonder if trex looked more like a with a weird face than a modern lizard.

I just think it'd be funny to see a giant version of a chicken running around doing the chicken football thing except with a cow or something.

I see people listing their favourites... what is your favourite dinosaur?