Me! Always thought that club was badass
Mine's stegosaurus, if anyone cares.
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clay_pidgin 3 points 3 years ago
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dangblingus 1 point 3 years ago
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Zagorath 7 points 3 years ago
Yo, me too! Though as a kid I thought it was anklyosaurus, and somehow related to ankles.
Unless we're allowed to include extant dinosaur species. In which case the bush stone-curlew is my fav. ❤️ those adorable screemy bois.
clay_pidgin 1 point 3 years ago
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SporkMasher 28 points 3 years ago
When my wife drives and we come to a complete stop, if the car next to me has their window down I usually try to ask them their favorite dinosaur. So far only one person has gotten really mad at me, most people just get confused.
asteriskeverything 5 points 3 years ago
You mainly do it to amuse your wife don't you, you delightful mischievous bastard.
DragonTypeWyvern 7 points 3 years ago
There's dozens of us (if you count lurkers)
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GreenMario 16 points 3 years ago
Feathered T-Rex. The theory is that those useless little arms are actually supposed to be wings makes more sense. Do they fly? No, and neither do ostriches. Probably glide tho.
GreenMario 9 points 3 years ago
They Naruto run after you. Thats gotta be it lol
Zagorath 6 points 3 years ago
That enabled animals to grow as large as they did, and it enabled massive pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus to exist. And even Quetzalcoatlus, which is much lighter and had much larger wings than T. rex, has been the subject of debate as to whether and to what extent it could fly. Both existed in the late Cretaceous period.
unnecessarygoat 2 points 3 years ago
the atmosphere 66 million years ago wasn't that different to the atmosphere today, the reason why pterosaurs like quetzalcoatlus was able to grow to such massive sizes was because they had extremely light skeletons. higher oxygen levels did allow arthropods to grow to giant sizes during the carboniferous, but it would have little effect on how large vertebrates could grow.
reverendsteveii 2 points 3 years ago
It wasn't different enough that those chicken wings would let a 15,000 lb critter fly. It had more oxygen, which was helpful for letting critters get big (esp insects), but it wasnt physically thick.
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unnecessarygoat 1 point 3 years ago
tyrannosaurs didn't have the advanced feathers seen on birds, so it wouldn't be possible for them to have wings
clay_pidgin 3 points 3 years ago
Club-Style thagomizer club represent!
PraiseTheSoup 12 points 3 years ago
Diplodocus, because I love the name
Sigh_Bafanada 4 points 3 years ago
Do you say Dip-lod-o-kuss or Dip-low-dock-uss?
_Gandalf_the_Black_ 2 points 3 years ago
This is why we have the IPA
ZombieMantis 12 points 3 years ago
Archaeopteryx
It is to our understanding of dinosaur & avian evolution what Lucy is to our understanding of human evolution. Also it looks cool.
Scarronline 12 points 3 years ago
Triceratops people hold strong!
electrorocket 5 points 3 years ago
I like someosaurs.
CaptainEffort 4 points 3 years ago
I like dinosaurus
saltnotsugar 3 points 3 years ago
Oh hell yeah!
negativenull 2 points 3 years ago
Allosaurus had a lot to like. Great choice
willeypete23 11 points 3 years ago
Growing up is learning your favorite dinosaur isn't actually a dinosaur. (mine was pterodactyl)
threelonmusketeers 11 points 3 years ago
Ravens.
Hey, I'm technically more correct than everyone who chose dimetrodon, pterosaurs, plesiosauroidea, or crocodilians.
Eufalconimorph 6 points 3 years ago
Corvids are particularly awesome.
technologicalcaveman 11 points 3 years ago
I always like pterodactyls, specifically the classic big lizard ones. I do have a tiny Dimetrodon in my pc case though that I got out of a crane machine.
Sigh_Bafanada 6 points 3 years ago
Nor is dimetrodon haha. They're all excellent though
Pipoca 7 points 3 years ago
There's two big groups of four-limbed vertebrates: amphibians (like frogs), and amniotes (like us and birds). Amniotes developed into two groups: synapsids (mammals) and saurapsids (lizards, birds, turtles, etc.).
Dimetrodon was a synapsid that ruled the world tens of millions of years before the first dinosaurs evolved.
That makes it really cool, actually, precisely because it isn't a dinosaur. Dimetrodon is to us as brotosaurus is to chickens: a really interesting great great etc uncle.
Rhaedas 5 points 3 years ago
That moment when someone mentions something and it brings back old memories. I had a big pterodactyl as a kid, sold as a plastic model kit to assemble. Had it hanging from the ceiling for years, and had long forgotten it.
technologicalcaveman 3 points 3 years ago
I did the wood skeleton dinosaur models. I had a few of them as a kid and might do a few now.
Lucidlethargy 9 points 3 years ago
I would genuinely rather hear what everyone's favorite dinosaur is, than who their favorite sports team is. Yet, society thinks I should care whole lot about the latter...
UnhingedFridge 8 points 3 years ago
Mine are crows and pigeons. Those count, right?
SnowBunting 3 points 3 years ago
Crow team!
negativenull 11 points 3 years ago
Poking the bear are we?
Sigh_Bafanada 2 points 3 years ago
Woohoo same here since I was a tiny wee lad But also shout-out to Amargosaurus, they're pretty cool.
squeezeyerbawdy 7 points 3 years ago
As long as we are using looser definitions mine are Pleisosaurus for an aquatic, Pterodactyl for air and Brachiosaurus for land.
dangblingus 6 points 3 years ago
Ankylosaurus peeps, stand the fuck up.
pineapplelover 6 points 3 years ago
Brachiosaurus because they look as some kind of fictional creature.
_Gandalf_the_Black_ 4 points 3 years ago
And they're tall bois
reverendsteveii 3 points 3 years ago
Tastysaurus
catsdoingcatstuff 5 points 3 years ago
Pterodactyl. And now I have the dinosaur train theme stuck in my head. 🦖
ChucklesMacLeroy 5 points 3 years ago
Stego is in my top 5. 👍
FrankTheHealer 5 points 3 years ago
Pterodactyl and its not even close lol.
Its like, dinosaurs are cool, but you know what's cooler? Dinosaurs that can fly
clay_pidgin 2 points 3 years ago
Quetzalcoatlus, bebe!
_Gandalf_the_Black_ 3 points 3 years ago
Dinosaurs can't fly
agent_flounder 5 points 3 years ago
I'm just fascinated by the sauropods. The big ones. I'm gonna go with Supersaurus (because super! Lol)
Sci Am article on how sauropods evolved to be huge over and over again
Of all the animals ever to have roamed the planet, the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods stand unrivaled. No other terrestrial creatures have come close to attaining their colossal sizes.
ParsnipWitch 4 points 3 years ago
Iguanodon.
Because they are herbivores and are badass with their killer thumbs. Also they have funny looking faces and probably had a funny walk similar to a kangaroo.
Researches first put their thumb horns on their noses which is hilarious as well.
octoperson 4 points 3 years ago
Iguanodon't
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Pipoca 5 points 3 years ago
There were some really dinosaur-like crocodiles, too. Shuvosaurus and poposaurus, for example.
But for whatever reason, they decided to define dinosaurs to exclude pterosaurs and crocodiles; they're the closest relatives of dinosaurs but are still relatives and not actual dinos.
Birds, though, are legit dinosaurs.
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Pipoca 5 points 3 years ago
Biologists like using clades to describe things, these days. A clade is all the descendants of some common ancestor on an evolutionary tree.
That particularly means that they disfavor terms that refer to almost all of the descendants of something, but exclude one branch because reasons. Which does make sense, right? "Paraphyletic groups" are like saying "The Vanderbilt family is all the descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt... except for Anderson Cooper and his descendants".
So the technical definition of dinosaur, right now, is anything descended from the most recent common ancestor of triceratops, diplodocus, and the house sparrow.
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JCreazy 4 points 3 years ago
As a child, Velociraptor, as an adult I probably wouldn't choose a velociraptor because of how deadly they are. I would probably choose a more friendly docile dinosaur but I honestly don't know what the best one would be.
MystikIncarnate 3 points 3 years ago
Probably dino. He was a good boy.
Eufalconimorph 3 points 3 years ago
All the avian ones.
toy_boat_toy_boat 3 points 3 years ago
are you talking avian dinosaurs or current birds that have descended from dinosaurs? or both?
toy_boat_toy_boat 2 points 3 years ago
are there any other avian species than those descended from dinosaurs? (not trying to argue or salvage a lost argument, but is there?)
EDIT -- yes, i'm a dummy... flies, mosquitoes, bats.. ugh, i should really cut back on my cannabis
Zagorath 2 points 3 years ago
yes, i’m a dummy… flies, mosquitoes, bats
No, you were right the first time. Avian doesn't mean "flying", but "relating to birds". Basically, dinosaurs are a big tree (the technical term is "clade") consisting of all animals that descend from a particular common ancestor (the last common ancestor of all dinosaurs). Because all birds descend from the same last common ancestor as raptors, sauropods, ceratopsia (e.g. triceratops), etc., birds are dinosaurs.
There seems to be some disagreement about the precise use of terminology in formal contexts, but I think in an informal context the term "avian" in "non-avian dinosaurs" has a comparatively clear meaning. Avians seems to point to the clade "aves", which are (in this case) the last common ancestor of all the currently living birds and all of its descendants. So non-avian dinosaurs is taking the clade of all creatures descended from the last common ancestor of all dinosaurs, and snipping off the sub-clade of those creatures descended from the last common ancestor of all birds.
Pterosaurs are among the most closely-related creatures to dinosaurs, but are not quite included. Bats are a long way removed from the clade of dinosaurs, and insects are even further away. None of these are avian, despite sharing the ability for flight.
Incidentally, you do seem to have touched upon three of the four separate times flight has evolved. Insects, birds, and bats. The fourth being pterosaurs. It's also thought that scansoriopterygidae, another family of dinosaurs, might have been able to fly (they could definitely at least glide), which would mean dinosaurs evolved flight two separate times: scansoriopterygidae and birds.
beteljuice 3 points 3 years ago
Steggy all the way!
negativenull 3 points 3 years ago
Hard to choose.
Nodosaurus: (mummified then fossilized: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/...)
Microraptor: 4 winged dinosaur
Allosaurus
Apatosaurus
Nepenthe 4 points 3 years ago
It is technically prehistoric, which I did not know until now. Same with coelacanths, and they're pretty damn cool.
I don't think my poor, sweet Dunkleosteus really qualifies as what people think of when they think dinosaur, either. But it turned its supportive gill arches into the world's first jawbones!
mycatiskai 2 points 3 years ago
If we are counting anything prehistoric from Ark as a dinosaur then Chalicotherium, if only old school Dino's then Compsognathus.
ajoebyanyothername 1 point 3 years ago
Not according to the documentary Jurassic Park.
FrankHerbert 1 point 3 years ago
I wonder if trex looked more like a with a weird face than a modern lizard.
I just think it'd be funny to see a giant version of a chicken running around doing the chicken football thing except with a cow or something.
Cloudygrey 1 point 3 years ago
Diplodocus. Far superior in looks to the brontosaurus
metaStatic -6 points 3 years ago
We never cared
QuazarOmega 7 points 3 years ago
In truth, the game was rigged from the start!
DragonTypeWyvern 8 points 3 years ago
I cared.
And I judge you for your poor choices.
Best is triceratops, btw.
QuazarOmega 4 points 3 years ago
I'm your nemesis! The lame kid that never found dinosaurs very interesting, yes, I shall bring my rule over all dinosaur lovers, for they must suffer too the staleness of a shallow life! I'll make everyone's life a plain, boring grayness, MWAHAHAH- Can you tell me more about the triceratops?
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reverendsteveii 1 point 3 years ago
If you don't think a topic is worth engaging on, register your distaste by flicking upward with your thumb. Or just shutting up. Either is fine.
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