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.
Therazinosaurus. What even is this thing? Look at this big pokey boi:
Mine as well, it is me as a dino… a tall hervibore with long claws :P my spirit dinosaur if you will.
They’re so doofy. I love them.
Tickle chicken!! This guy is my favorite second only to true dilophosaur which was much larger than the Jurassic park depiction and probably didn’t have the frill or acid spit because it was the largest predator in it’s area.
Looks like a herbivore who discovered a love for really fresh ham.
What if those giant claws were webbed and it was actually some kind of weird prehistoric duck waddling around everywhere.
I mean is this really necessary.
Camarasaurus, because I found a tooth of one while volunteering on a dig site
how big was it? (the tooth)
Camarasaurus has large teeth for a Sauropod. They are like little shovels. This one was worn down quite a bit, so the Paelo on site said it was likely an older adult:
You can see a skull of one here for reference:
That skull looks like a cockpit. Is it missing pieces? Seems like it would not protect well.
Full skulls from Saurpods are fairly rare, since they are so fragile. They are huge animals though. Camarasaurus was much taller than the largest predator at the time (Allosaurus). They were up to like 70 feet long, and 30ish tons. Allosaurus was 30 feet long (still long), but only 2-3 tons. A full grown Camarasaurus would probably just fine. Young ones would be very vulnerable (but they did grow SUPER fast compared to mammals)
That is truly AWESOME!
Thank you for sharing
It was very exciting. I’m hoping to do more volunteering of that sort again.
I wonder what it tastes like.
Triceratops. The only thing wrong with rhinos are that they have too few horns and not enough armor plating.
There was a monoceratops. Hell, there were ceratopsians who didn’t have horns at all.
I like the triceratops. Having three pointy bits makes it 50% more awesome than rhinos.
Unicorns are even lower on the list then?
Yes, and lets not get started on regular horses.
Still beats the stupid long horse…
Just wait until you hear about
StyrofoamosaurusStyracosaurus!
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.
Diplodocus
Spinosaurus.
Because it stymies paleontologists seemingly every time one of them tries to figure it out.
Jurassic Park III was where I first noticed them and started learning. One of the scarier dinosaurs from any of those movies.
Quetzalcoatlus. Technically it isn’t a dinosaur but that makes it - and me accordingly - even more special.
Same. Giraffe-sized flying nightmare with the wingspan of a Cessna that can swallow you whole. Hell yeah.
I have a few.
By far the frontrunner is Parasaurolophus. Hadrosaurs are cool, Lambeosaurid Hadrosaurs are cooler. Not to besmirch my boy Edmontosaurus tho. The biggest Hadrosaur is also on my list.
I am also a big fan of the Borealopelta. This is a Nodosaurid Ankylosaur, meaning it has shoulder spikes instead of a tail club. I like this guy because of the story of its discovery, as well as the fantastic display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Also helps that it’s the most intact armored dino ever found.
Finally there is the Regaliceratops. Like a Triceratops, but with a super fun crown!
Yes! I have always loved the parasaurolophus!
Parasaurolophus gang unite!
I do enjoy them but I’m a bad gamer (I only play one game consistently). I added it to my wishlist to check out when it’s on sale. Thanks for the info!
enanthiornes, the “opposite birds” that are not related to the birds as we know it.
Steg
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.
The lad with the thagomizer. Because of the thagomizer.
Stegosaurs! For those who don’t know how the name came about, look it up if you’d like a chuckle.
At this moment it is the stegosaurus. The tiny ass head, huge plates down the back, thunder thighs, and thagomizer named by a cartoonist is just awesome sauce.
Plus there are more millions of years between the stegosaurus and the tyrannosaurus than between the tyrannosaurus and humans.
Yes. Finally, some love for Steg 😁
You gave the correct answer. Done.
Technically not a dinosaur but a Pterosaur, but still, Quetzalcoatlus https://dino.fandom.com/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus.
Would make my morning commute way more fun.
Quetzalcoatlus gets my vote as scariest creature to have ever lived. If one landed in my yard and saw me through the window, decided it wanted in, it is getting in.
I could maybe prevail with the 12-gauge sitting here, but I wouldn’t bet on it. By the time I got over the shock of seeing it, the thing would crash it’s head through my front window and snatch me. Betting one could hammer through the roof given a couple of minutes.
Outdoors? Pretty much zero hope. Long beak, flies, moves fast, morals of a seagull? Yikes.
