Where's my ankylosaurus gang at?
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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.
Definitely ankle related. Think how it can shatter ankles with that tail.
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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.
How dare you bother me in public! /s
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Triceratops was always my fav.
Horn gang represent!
There's dozens of us (if you count lurkers)
I'm a stegosaurus man myself.
Absolutely. I don't know what it is about them but yeah, stegosaurus are cool.
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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.
With wings that tiny I doubt a T-Rex was doing much gliding either, considering its size.
Maybe falling with style? No, probably not that either.
They Naruto run after you. Thats gotta be it lol
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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.
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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chickens are definitely my favourite dinosaur, tastiest one plus they lay big eggs.
Found the guy who never ate fried microraptor wings.
yet to find it in local stores sadly, and i'm unwilling to order food online.
Ankylosaurus, give me a living tank with a club for a tail that could likely damage a real tank.
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Archaeopteryx
It is to our understanding of dinosaur & avian evolution what Lucy is to our understanding of human evolution. Also it looks cool.
Triceratops people hold strong!
Growing up is learning your favorite dinosaur isn't actually a dinosaur. (mine was pterodactyl)
Growing up is learning your favorite bird is a dinosaur
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.
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.
Nor is dimetrodon haha. They're all excellent though
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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Ravens.
Hey, I'm technically more correct than everyone who chose dimetrodon, pterosaurs, plesiosauroidea, or crocodilians.
Corvids are particularly awesome.
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...
When I think dinosaur, I think Dimetrodon
Poking the bear are we?
As long as we are using looser definitions mine are Pleisosaurus for an aquatic, Pterodactyl for air and Brachiosaurus for land.
Ankylosaurus peeps, stand the fuck up.
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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