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)
Ankylosaurus! Tail club, armor plates, what’s not to love?
Ah yes, when nature went “what if tank?”:
HAHA YES!
BONK
Me as a kid, as I also loved turtles. This was the time when dinosaurs saw turtles and said ‘hold my beer.’
My daughter is obsessed with dinosaurs right now and this is my go-to favorite, too. Hers was Parasaurolophus but now is back to T-Rex lol.
Came here to say Parasaurolophus. Apparently one well-preserved specimen allowed scientists to take a stab at what it sounded like… I wish I could hear what the soundscape was like 65 million years (or more) ago! https://piped.video/watch?v=QtpSOpUDCb8
Fun fact: the nubs on the tail club are called osteoderms and the tail spikes on a stegosaurus is called a thagomizer.
Yep, my favorite as well.
It just doesn’t get any cooler than a literal living tank.
!ankmemes@sh.itjust.works could use more content from fellow Ankthusiasts!
I’m boring, and still like Stegosaurus best. Gotta love that Thagomizer.
I’m boring
We’ll have none of that here! Nothing wrong with liking an old classic, because I mean come on:
That Stegosaurus vs T-Rex scene in Disney’s Fantasia is probably the reason why this is my favorite.
Solid choice.
There was a point in fifth grade when I was into plesioasurs after reading books about the Loch Ness Monster and Mokele Mbembe.
Poor Thag Simmons…
thebestdinosaur.com Irrefutable logic
Euoplocephalus, because I like me some ank memes, but I wanna be special.
If we included pterosaurs, then anurognathus, because look at him!
Patagotitan mayorum. I think that it’s the largest that we know about - around 40m large. Herbivore, I can’t help but think on it as a dino-giraffe: eating leaves, nesting its eggs, not giving too much of a fuck about the small critters nearby.
Spinosaurus!
Gigantic crocodile-faced sail-finned bitey boy supreme.
same
same 2
I just have a soft spot for triceratops.
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.
Same. Because triceratops have none.
It’s like a rhino with even more armor and horns, what’s not to like?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 be a monoclonius 🤔
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
Woo-hoo, go, Tundro
Edit: maybe my memory is conflating multiple shows but this must be part of it. Holy crap, how did I like this? Watching it now, it was so bad
And how did this pedo episode ever air? “Hey kids, come on into my white windowless van. I’ll take you far from here and make your wishes come true”. This could have used a little stranger danger!” Mania, but predates that
Bionatops from He Man?
Iguanodon.
Where it all started.
A big thumbs up to that
I know they’re not dinosaurs, but I like pterosaurs a lot. Their wings look cool and I bet a flock of them in the sky would be a crazy sight!
The larger ones would have been absolutely fucking terrifying:
Parasaurolophus has been my favorite since I was 6 years old. I’ve always thought their cranial crests were very cool.
If the Ankylosaurus was nature going “what if tank?” then the Parasaurolophus was nature going “what if dinosaur but cow?”
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.
Thunder lizard! Brontosaur’s another classic, ginormous boyes
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
tricerytops
It’s always been Allosaurus
Team allosaurus too! I recently got to see this one:
https://www.marqueyssac.com/a-dinosaur-in-the-garden/?lang=en
Kiwis! They look so unusual and almost mammal like, and on top of this they’re absolutely adorable little birbs!
Ha, great answer! Kiwis are definitely strange birbs, they sort of feel more ancient than your regular average tiny dinosaurs
Chicken.
Duck beats chicken in every way except tastiness
A well prepared duck is much tastier than chicken. Chicken is just much easier to cook.
What are you talking about? Ducks are like richer chickens.
Ducks are gods compared to the lowly chicken
It also wins on tastiness! I’m my book anyway. Crispy fried duck. Peking duck. It’s basically all brown meat. Delicious.
How is tastiness the thing ducks wouldn’t be better at??
At the risk of sounding like a basic bitch, I’m going to go with T-Rex. Sure he has ridiculously silly arms, but he gets a pass because he could bite through a car. It’s a prime case of be careful who you pick on in school.
T.rex is the goat and I’m convinced more people haven’t said it only because it’s too ‘obvious’
T Rex eats the goat.
