Stegosaurus!
Love the thagomizers.
They’re my second favorite thing that pokes out from a stegosaurus!
My people are here!
Stegosaurus has spikes on its back
to keep away predators trying to attack.
Stegosaurus does have the Thagomizer, so named by The Far Side comics, and officially given that name because scientists didnt give it a name before that.
He protecc
He attacc
He got spikes on his bacc
(Plus I bet he talks like Eeyore)
“raptor”
There’s more than one kind of raptor, buddy. Also why doesn’t the raptor have feathers? If you’re gonna mush all the raptors together into a single species, at least draw the feathers. This is offensive to theropods around the world as it turns us into a homogeneous, featherless caricature.
Also why are pterodactyls even here? They’re pterosaurs, not dinosaurs
The same for the aquatic reptiles.
Also, bring my giganantossaurus!
Same here! Giganotosaurus and Argentinosaurus are the ones I would have picked
Oh here we go - bring in the pterosaur shills!1!
;)
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
I see you have a bit of spitfire left over. Please sit in this cubicle over here and adult for just a little while longer.
I just want to say that anyone who picks pterodactyl, ichthyosaurus, or mosasaurus as their favourite dinosaurs is wrong because none of those are dinosaurs.
Having said that, I like triceratops, which isn’t on the list for some reason. I guess I’ll pick styracosaurus since it’s similar.
My favorite dinosaur is Plesiosaurus.
What are you gonna do about it? >:)
I haven’t checked in a while but I THOUGHT it was believed triceratops is now just a juvenile other dinosaur
That was news to me. The wiki for Torosaurus is a deep rabbit hole, and since fossilization is rare and we have to go with what little we can find, this will probably be a long debate either way.
With that being said, whatever the name, three horn dino is best dino! And weird that the meme wouldn’t have one on there, since it has always been a well known dinosaur in movies and toys.
I know it’s been debated back and forth with a lot of the ceratopsian dinosaurs. Torosaurus was the one they think/thought is the adult version of a triceratops. I’m not sure where the consensus stands now though.
Consensus is probably not.
- We don’t have transition forms
- We probably have young Torosaurs (which are not Triceratops)
- Holes in the skull would have to form atypically late for ceratopsidae
- some other stuff I forgot
Brontosaurus because Land Before Time was the shit
I’ll allow it
Allosaurus!
I think “ankylosaurus” is misspelled. The only reason I know that is because it has always been my favorite dinosaur.
“Iguanadon” (my favourite) and “Coelophysis” are also mispelled
👍👍 Two thumbs up for iguanodon.
Same, and I was getting concerned when I got halfway down the list and I didn’t see it yet. I’ve always liked the pterodactyl as well, because it’s basically the closest we’ll get to a wyvern.
Represent!
No Tickle Chicken? Bad guide!
When I’m reading the dinosaur book with my four year old they always point at the brachiosaurus and say that it’s me, so that’ll be my favourite dinosaur.
no triceratops
Carnotaurus, because it’s like a T-Rex’s edgier cousin.
Allosaurus for me
*hornier
No Triceratops? Yeah, I gonna need to speak to a manager on this one…
We only have tricera-bottoms here.
Parasaurolopus because of Land Before Time.
Yes! But for me it’s because of the awesome name.
Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.
Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.
For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.
It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.
The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.
So to sum up, we have a heavily built, seemingly aquactic crocodile like dinosaur with teeth and jaws built for active hunting. But wouldnt be that fast on land (heavy bones and giant spines) and cant swim like a croc or gator(no muscles for that.) And it doesn’t have a long neck like a heron or pleisiosaur.
Best of all, the most complete skeleton of spinosaurus was destroyed in WW2, so we don’t eben have that to work from.