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[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where's my ankylosaurus gang at?

[–] CaptainFlintlockFinn@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Me! Always thought that club was badass

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another community missing (?) from lemmy - /r/ankmemes.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Definitely ankle related. Think how it can shatter ankles with that tail.

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[–] SporkMasher@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

How dare you bother me in public! /s

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[–] Seraph@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Triceratops was always my fav.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's dozens of us (if you count lurkers)

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a stegosaurus man myself.

[–] maudefi@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Absolutely. I don't know what it is about them but yeah, stegosaurus are cool.

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[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago (11 children)

With wings that tiny I doubt a T-Rex was doing much gliding either, considering its size.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe falling with style? No, probably not that either.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

They Naruto run after you. Thats gotta be it lol

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[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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...

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brontosaurus. Just a gigantic chill dude.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

chickens are definitely my favourite dinosaur, tastiest one plus they lay big eggs.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Found the guy who never ate fried microraptor wings.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

yet to find it in local stores sadly, and i'm unwilling to order food online.

[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ankylosaurus, give me a living tank with a club for a tail that could likely damage a real tank.

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[–] Stuka@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Archaeopteryx

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

[–] Scarronline@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Triceratops people hold strong!

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Diplodocus, because I love the name

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[–] willeypete23@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Growing up is learning your favorite dinosaur isn't actually a dinosaur. (mine was pterodactyl)

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Growing up is learning your favorite bird is a dinosaur

[–] technologicalcaveman@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] reattach@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nor is dimetrodon haha. They're all excellent though

[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

There's two big groups of four-limbed vertebrates: amphibians (like frogs), and amniotes (like us and birds). Amniotes developed into two groups: synapsids (mammals) and saurapsids (lizards, birds, turtles, etc.).

Dimetrodon was a synapsid that ruled the world tens of millions of years before the first dinosaurs evolved.

That makes it really cool, actually, precisely because it isn't a dinosaur. Dimetrodon is to us as brotosaurus is to chickens: a really interesting great great etc uncle.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ravens.

Hey, I'm technically more correct than everyone who chose dimetrodon, pterosaurs, plesiosauroidea, or crocodilians.

Corvids are particularly awesome.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

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...

[–] kool_newt@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I think dinosaur, I think Dimetrodon

[–] negativenull@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Poking the bear are we?

[–] corodius@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deinonychus, definitely :)

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[–] UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine are crows and pigeons. Those count, right?

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[–] squeezeyerbawdy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Ankylosaurus peeps, stand the fuck up.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brachiosaurus because they look as some kind of fictional creature.

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[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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