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)
Earl Sinclair.
Probably the dinosaurus
Deeduthnkesauros
That’s not a dinosaur though.
Crazily enough Anchiornis are dinosaurs, specifically paravian or possibly avialan depending on whose classification you believe, but dinos in any case
Why pterodactyls aren’t consider dinosaurs then?
Same reason bats aren’t considered birds.
Because they don’t descend from those ancestors. Instead they evolved from some other, much earlier, reptile ancestor. They are about as dinosaurs as crocodiles or snakes are dinosaurs.
Just want to give props to OP for playing the role of host/MC very well.
Aww, thank you
I just have a soft spot for triceratops.
Movie depictions of Triceratops rub me the wrong way. Never liked Sarah in Land Before Time and my daughter loves Ice Age Buck Wild and the triceratops is the bad guy in that, too. They do triceratops dirty.
Actually guy in buck wild may he a monoclonius 🤔
Completely understandable! They’re a classic
My favorite cartoon as a kid had a triceratops at a hero. I don’t remember much about it and can’t find it listed online but it might have been from 1970s and I really just remember the triceratops charging at the bad guys, shooting lasers out of his horns
Herculoids?
I Think you found it! THANK YOU
The name “Herculoids” seems familiar and the Wikipedia description of Tundro is right on!
However the thumbnails don’t seem to be quite the appearance I remembered, but maybe that’s just poor memory
Bionatops from He Man?
No, I never saw he-man as a kid
Same. Because triceratops have none.
It’s like a rhino with even more armor and horns, what’s not to like?I used to think liking triceratops is dumb when there’s likes of centrosaurus and styracosaurus, but over the years I’ve come to appreciate the classic design.
Design. Right.
Euoplocephalus, because I like me some ank memes, but I wanna be special.
If we included pterosaurs, then anurognathus, because look at him!
Titanosaurus. The one from the Showa era, not the one from the Cretaceous.
Joe Bidenasaurus
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 also have brontosaurus as my favorite (probably also because of The Land Before Time).
Glad you’re still holding out hope for Pluto too!
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
tricerytops
Parasaurolophus. I just think they’re kinda neat and kinda cute.
Aside from that, pretty much any raptor. (I am not a paleontologist, I mostly just mean anything with feathers)
They’ve recently discovered that their large nasal cavities could have been used to make a tuba like noise
Oh yeah somebody else had Parasaurolophus as their fave too earlier, and they (well, the reconstructions anyhow) really do look super cute. Dinocows!
gotta go with the velociraptor, Little knife chicken
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
The Idon’tgiveafucksaurus. Just does what it wants with no worries.
