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What is your favorite dinosaur? (sopuli.xyz)

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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)

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[-] Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world 52 points 3 months ago

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

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 42 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, when nature went "what if tank?":

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

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[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

HAHA YES!

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[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 11 points 3 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@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

He's a handsome lad.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 9 points 3 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@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Yep, my favorite as well.

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

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[-] almost1337@lemm.ee 43 points 3 months ago

I'm boring, and still like Stegosaurus best. Gotta love that Thagomizer.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 months ago

I’m boring

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

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[-] Moghul@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I just have a soft spot for triceratops.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 7 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] atomicorange@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago

Spinosaurus!

Gigantic crocodile-faced sail-finned bitey boy supreme.

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 21 points 3 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.

[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 17 points 3 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@lemmy.world 6 points 3 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

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[-] illumrial@lemmy.world 14 points 3 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!

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The larger ones would have been absolutely fucking terrifying:

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 14 points 3 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@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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

[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

T Rex eats the goat.

[-] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Chicken.

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[-] darkishgrey@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

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

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago

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

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago

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

[-] RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Pachycephalasaurus has always been on of my favorites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosaurus

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Chicken.

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

Wicked Barbie Srirachasaur

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[-] authorinthedark@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 months ago

gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken

[-] norimee@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Archaeopteryx - apparently the first bird ever

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Atin@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Allosaurus

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[-] Klear@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Euoplocephalus, because I like me some ank memes, but I wanna be special.

If we included pterosaurs, then anurognathus, because look at him!

[-] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

It's always been Allosaurus

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[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago

tricerytops

[-] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] RicoBerto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.)

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

This post made me think of Napoleon Dynamite for some reason. And I loved that movie.

I've always been partial to the Spinosaurus. Ain't no cowboy gonna ride ol' spiney.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 months ago

Ain’t no cowboy gonna ride ol’ spiney.

"Semiaquatic dinosaur rodeo" is an underappreciated theme. Maybe we'll see it in the next Jurassic Park.

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[-] meatwads_tooth@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Therizinosaurus! When I saw the previews for the new Jurassic World movie and they teased it, I got chills. I was so stoked.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago

Just want to give props to OP for playing the role of host/MC very well.

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Iguanodon.

Where it all started.

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[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Styracosaurus. No idea why other than they just look cool as fuck!

Styracosaurus size versus a human

[-] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Oviraptorosaurs!

They're basically giant turkeys!

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[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Microraptor. I have a soft spot for the small dinos

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