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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)
Ankylosaurus! Tail club, armor plates, what's not to love?
Ah yes, when nature went "what if tank?":
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.
Me as a kid, as I also loved turtles. This was the time when dinosaurs saw turtles and said 'hold my beer.'
He's a handsome lad.
Fun fact: the nubs on the tail club are called osteoderms and the tail spikes on a stegosaurus is called a thagomizer.
Yep, my favorite as well.
It just doesn't get any cooler than a literal living tank.
I'm boring, and still like Stegosaurus best. Gotta love that Thagomizer.
I’m boring
We'll have none of that here! Nothing wrong with liking an old classic, because I mean come on:
I just have a soft spot for triceratops.
Same. Because triceratops have none.
It's like a rhino with even more armor and horns, what's not to like?
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.
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.
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
Thunder lizard! Brontosaur's another classic, ginormous boyes
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!
The larger ones would have been absolutely fucking terrifying:
Parasaurolophus has been my favorite since I was 6 years old. I've always thought their cranial crests were very cool.
If the Ankylosaurus was nature going "what if tank?" then the Parasaurolophus was nature going "what if dinosaur but cow?"
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.
T.rex is the goat and I'm convinced more people haven't said it only because it's too 'obvious'
T Rex eats the goat.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s, so probably one that isn't considered a dinosaur anymore.
Chicken.
I just killed my back for the day making a barbeque bath for their little fingers...
Wicked Barbie Srirachasaur
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:
gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken
Euoplocephalus, because I like me some ank memes, but I wanna be special.
If we included pterosaurs, then anurognathus, because look at him!
tricerytops
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Therizinosaurus! When I saw the previews for the new Jurassic World movie and they teased it, I got chills. I was so stoked.
Just want to give props to OP for playing the role of host/MC very well.
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.
