Naturally, it’s Ankylosaurus. Just look at this armoured tactical turtle and tell me you do not love this silly little guy!
Just wanting to eat his plants. Wanna gnaw on him? Tough luck, it hurts and you cannot crack that shell. Also, he will fucking break your kneecaps with his built-in hammer while you’re bothering him.
Spirit animal.
I have a soft spot for two dinos because of videogames:
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Giganotosaurus: Because Dino Crisis 2. I mean, I know that its size was greatly exaggerated, but I’ll never forget how damn frightening it was when you were about to fight the T. rex and suddenly, bam!, a fucking thing twice it’s size appeared and kicked its ass like it was nothing.
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Utahraptor. Many years ago, there was a little game called “Primal Prey”, where you could go back in time and hunt for dinos. I thought (again) that the T. rex would be the most frightening, but when I got to the part where you have to hunt for the Utahraptor, oh boy, I almost pissed myself because this dude appeared behind me out of nowhere and killed me in an instant. Since then I’ve really liked this species.
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Young me: triceratops all the way. A bulldozer with horns, plus it wouldn’t eat me. Not as over the top with horns as styracosaurus.
Current me: ankylosaurs. Always thought they were unique, but young me also found them weird looking. Now I see it as a giant armadillo with a massive club.
Shout out to ichthyosaurs and pterosaurs. Not dinos but very awesome and terrifying creatures. I feel much safer knowing neither is around anymore though. gh.
Stegosaurus. Cant beat the classic. Though Iguanodon is close second.
There is a company called Stego Industries that has a Stegosaurus as their logo. Sounds cool, right? Wrong! They are awful. They make plastic liners that go below concrete slabs, so under the whole building. STEGOSAURUS MEANS ROOF LIZARD!!! The only construction product worthy of the Stego name should be shingles >:[
Faith in everything destroyed.
Stegosaurus is pretty great, I was always a fan of them, especially their thagomizers.
Just discovered postosuchus, which is a bipedal croc and as an Aussie I’m obliged to love crocodiles. What? It isn’t a dinosaur?
Postosuchus is terrifying. Imagine a 20 ft (6 m) alligator with long legs that can run long distances. They think it might have even run upright on its hind legs. Alas, not a dinosaur
As a fellow suchus enjoyed may I introduce the quinkana, a land crocodile that chased land mammals, would have lived along side komodo dragons and would’ve been seen by indigenous Australians
There any love here for Icthyosaurus?
Just looks like a big derpy lemony shaped dolphin, with a snoot that 76% more boopable.
Very awesome animals, but I don’t think these are technically dinos.
I like the triceratops. Having three pointy bits makes it 50% more awesome than rhinos.
Just wait until you hear about
StyrofoamosaurusStyracosaurus!Unicorns are even lower on the list then?
Yes, and lets not get started on regular horses.
Chicken ofc 🍗
Troodon. Little dudes that were thought to be smart, formed communities, had weird teeth, and have been the cause of multiple controversies over classification or existing at all. So, tiny trouble makers.
Any of the Hadrosauridae. Probably Lambeosaurus, specifically for the cover to one of the Dinotopia paperbacks:
More recently it has been determined that hadrosaur likely walked most frequently on all fours, with a larger tail. Still amazing looking creatures (credit to Gabriel Ugueto for the art):
Euoplocephalus, because I’m a hipster.
Honourable mention to anurognathus. Pterosaur rather than dinosaur, but so cute!
Mine is Triceratops, they look cool with their horns and frill. They were cool because they could defend themselves from T-Rex in the books.
Spinosaurus.
Because it stymies paleontologists seemingly every time one of them tries to figure it out.
Protoceratops because I am completely convinced they would be cool hanging out on the couch, playing fetch, and otherwise acting like a dinosaur house pet.
Triceratops. The only thing wrong with rhinos is that it has too few horns and not enough armor plating.
There was a monoceratops. Hell, there were ceratopsians who didn’t have horns at all.
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