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)
Spinosaurus!
Gigantic crocodile-faced sail-finned bitey boy supreme.
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same 2
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.
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?”
Microraptor. I have a soft spot for the small dinos
It had amazing feathers. That’s a really good pick
Chicken.
Duck beats chicken in every way except tastiness
How is tastiness the thing ducks wouldn’t be better at??
What are you talking about? Ducks are like richer chickens.
Ducks are gods compared to the lowly chicken
A well prepared duck is much tastier than chicken. Chicken is just much easier to cook.
It also wins on tastiness! I’m my book anyway. Crispy fried duck. Peking duck. It’s basically all brown meat. Delicious.
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 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
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!
Thunder lizard! Brontosaur’s another classic, ginormous boyes
Iguanodon.
Where it all started.
A big thumbs up to that
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:
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.
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.
Joe Bidenasaurus
Allosaurus
Team allosaurus too! I recently got to see this one:
https://www.marqueyssac.com/a-dinosaur-in-the-garden/?lang=en
That looks awesome. I recently took my sons to the Melbourne Museum. They have a new Tyrannosaur as well as a triceratops.
https://museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/resources/dinosaur-walk/
I like budgies <3 💚💚💚💛💜
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
Deeduthnkesauros
And their name means “egg thief”!
And turns out it’s slander!
Oviraptor was originally found together with a big nest of ceratopsian eggs, so it was assumed they fed by stealing those. Years later it was discovered the eggs actually belonged to the oviraptor who was protecting them till death.
Yeah those poor little dinos now get called thieves by everybody just because of an initial misunderstanding
