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)
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.)
Deeduthnkesauros
Trex!
You should play Arc Survival Evolved it’s an amazing game for dinosaur nerds 🤓
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
Oof tough question. I’ve always had a soft spot for Parasaurolophus and deinonychosaurians.
If I have to pick a favorite among the heavy carnivores though, I’ll be torn between Carnotaurus and Giganotosaurus.
Ahh the Giganotosaurus, giving good 'ol t-rex a run for their money when it comes to size.
I still can’t believe the fact that they used to exist
Right? And what’s really wild is that birds are literally dinosaurs. Not just descended from dinosaurs, but classified as feathered theropods and the only known living dinosaurs
But haven’t they extincted by the astroid?
No they haven’t, if you go outside you might even see some!
Birds are not real though.
Most dinosaurs did go extinct! Now there’s only the avialan “branch” left which includes all modern birds, and their extinct ancestors like eg. the Archaeopteryx
Pachycephalasaurus has always been on of my favorites.
Head butting problems to make them go away since 85.8 Mya
my little sister (four years old at the time) SHOCKED me when she pointed the dinosaur statue out to me saying its name flawlessly lol
needless to say she loves her dinos:)
The Idon’tgiveafucksaurus. Just does what it wants with no worries.
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.
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!
This has to be one of the most hilarious recreations I’ve seen:
The real skulls are sick, too
gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken
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.
Oh you mean the weird “dinosauroid” thing?
Earl Sinclair.
I like budgies <3 💚💚💚💛💜
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.
