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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a big fan of the thesaurus

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

I am also an enthusiast of the... dinosaur of similar words

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My favorite has always been Pterodactyls

/runs

[–] nettle@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

Oh my favourite has always been Plesiosaur's, also did you know the tuatara is the last living dinasaur.

/s

[–] PillBugTheGreat@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I kinda got into dinosaurs as a kid. Today, there are so many different collections of dinosaurs in various encyclopedias. My favorite from the new books is Micropachycephalosauarus. Just the idea that a little dino, like tini little guy, was running around headbutting things cracks me up.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I hope it brings you joy to know that "dinosaur" kids are still memorizing these ever-growing lists. I work with kids, and the big dinosaur fan is still teaching me new dino things almost every day. We recently learned of a dinosaur that is basically another student's name +saurus. That was a cute discovery.

[–] MiDaBa@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you think Jeff Bezos will push his Prime studio to make Homelander a hero now that he's an ultra right wing supporter?

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

He's already the hero for the idiots. No need to change anything, it's already the perfect allegory - just that they're rooting for the villain.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He looks like a Compsognathus kinda guy.

(For the non-dino nerds Compsognathus means "pretty jaw".)

[–] sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

I'm a pachycephalosaurus guy myself.

[–] flyos@jlai.lu 8 points 2 months ago

Would have been slightly funnier and nerdier with the Dimetrodon IMHO.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

My favorite is spinosaurus! The fact that it is fully aquatic is so interesting!

Only semi /s

[–] AshLassay@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My favorite is the Gallus gallus domesticus.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

But which came first, the gallus gallus domesticus or the ovum?

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a good reason why dinosaur is only terrestrial extinct reptiles (and a subset at that)?

Do we have a handy term that includes plesiasaur, pteradons and dactyls, as well as dinosaurs?

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Disregarding fictionality, it also includes moths, at least one plant, and maybe arachnids (and controversially perhaps, an ape).

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And robots. Don't forget the robots.

[–] lemonmelon@lemmy.spronkus.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Also, smog.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

My favorite dinosaur is the flamingo