Other Happy Dinosaur Day

[Ben]

Little late thinking to post this, but today on Sunday June 1st is Dinosaur Day.

Post your favorite dinosaur. Maybe they can fight or something.

 

[Crystal]

I always loved the giant herbivores, Brontosaurus, Brachiosaurus, etc...and since being discovered it might as well be the awesome named Dreadnaughtus!

 

[Rachel]

my son used to be obsessed with dinosaurs. I believe his favorite was Utahraptor.

 

[Ben]

I always loved the giant herbivores, Brontosaurus, Brachiosaurus, etc...and since being discovered it might as well be the awesome named Dreadnaughtus!

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Dreadnaughtus is definitely one of the most badass names out there. I have respect for adopting a defense mechanism of "I'm just going to get so big nothing can even try to eat me."

Herbivores are really underrated.

Obviously I love the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and have since I saw Jurassic Park in the cinema when I was 6. In the same way, "evolved to just bite the fuck out of everything" is a evolutionary commitment and I dig it. Not quite "fuck these arms I am just a mouth" as Abelisauridae, but still.

There were some pretty wild herbivores that don't necessarily fit the blueprint of what you'd generally assume for herbivorous dinosaurs.

Therizinosaurus


Deinocheirus


They're just delightfully weird.

 

[Ben]

my son used to be obsessed with dinosaurs. I believe his favorite was Utahraptor.

Some of us never grew out of it.

 

[Crystal]

Dreadnaughtus is definitely one of the most badass names out there. I have respect for adopting a defense mechanism of "I'm just going to get so big nothing can even try to eat me."

Herbivores are really underrated.

Obviously I love the Tyrannosaurus Rex, and have since I saw Jurassic Park in the cinema when I was 6. In the same way, "evolved to just bite the fuck out of everything" is a evolutionary commitment and I dig it. Not quite "fuck these arms I am just a mouth" as Abelisauridae, but still.

There were some pretty wild herbivores that don't necessarily fit the blueprint of what you'd generally assume for herbivorous dinosaurs.

Therizinosaurus
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Deinocheirus
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They're just delightfully weird.

Those are funky!!

 

[shortkut]

The ankylosaurus has been my favorite since I was a child. I don’t remember why it is, but I clearly remember my ankylosaurus toy

 

[shortkut]

The ankylosaurus has been my favorite since I was a child. I don’t remember why it is, but I clearly remember my ankylosaurus toy

I did a very vague google search and found the exact one I had. Nostalgia is really making me want to get it

Vintage 1987 Playskool Definitely Dinosaurs Ankylosaurus 8" Action Figure Toy - Etsy

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[Ben]

The ankylosaurus has been my favorite since I was a child. I don’t remember why it is, but I clearly remember my ankylosaurus toy

Dinotank go drrrrr

I'm annoyed how dirty they did the Anky in Jurassic World. Actually I'm annoyed about a lot regarding those movies, but for one of the few carnivore vs. herbivore fights they've shown, letting the Ankylosaurus get flipped like a bitch and killed wasn't very cool. Dude should have hunkered down and busted some Indominus kneecaps.

 

[Nae'blis]

Gotta go with the T-Rex as well. Ever since Jurassic Park, and the ripples in the water glass.

 

[The Flame]

My favorites have changed so many times. When I was a kid I liked carnotaurus

But I kinda grew out of that after realizing how stupid his arms looked...

Head is still awesome though.

There was a short stint where I really like Amargasaurus almost entirely because of these doofy ass pictures I saw of it:


Dude looks like the biggest dork of the dinosaur kingdom in literally every picture, but he's also usually got those rad spikes.

More recently I tend to flip-flop between Giganotosaurus (because T-Rex but bigger) or Pterodactyl/Pteranodon/whatever other Pterosaur looks like that.

Feelin pretty pteranodon-y right now. But idk that might change. Ask me in a few years and I'll be all about the Styracosaurus or something.

 

[Quagmire]

 

[Jawneh]

I enjoy the compsoghnatus a lot. Small little fucker that will eat all of your ankles. All of them.



I'm also partial to the good ol velociraptor. I might be partial to fast, sleek, and agile dinos.

 

[dimmerwit]

My favourite is the chicken. I ate it in two forms for lunch (a gyro-style wrap and a butter chicken bake). Delicious. I suspect a T-rex has a vastly inferior taste.

For old dinosaurs it would be the brachiosaurus. They seem pretty chill.

 

[Ben]

Pterodactyl/Pteranodon/whatever other Pterosaur looks like that.

Feelin pretty pteranodon-y right now. But idk that might change.

Pedantic "but pteranodons aren't dinosaurs " but still, word.

Also Giganotosaurus might possibly have been longer than T. Rex, but it certainly wasn't as bulky. Not that I'd fancy my chances outrunning either of them.

For old dinosaurs it would be the brachiosaurus. They seem pretty chill.

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"Chill" as in "oblivious to everything that wasn't a tree", I'm guessing. It's said the reason they never raised their young is because they just wouldn't notice if they stepped on their eggs/babies. They went the sea-turtle route, laying eggs then moving on, and the new hatched sauropods had to make a dash for the forests where they'd have some cover/protection until they grew big enough to not be messed with by predators. Still a wild reproduction strategy for something so big.

 

[Ben]

Actually, I blame Dino Crisis 2 for really fucking up people's perception of how big a Giganotosaurus really was. That thing was just a god damned kaiju.