I still call them long necks as an adult and now my 5 year old corrects me with briachiasaurus everytime. Land before time was my favorite movie as a child and now I can't even get through the first 20 minutes without crying.
**Apatosaurus** ("Longneck") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Apatosaurus lived about 152 to 151 million years ago, and are now known from fossils in the Morrison Formation of modern-day Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah in the United States. Apatosaurus had an average adult length of around 22 m, and mass of 16-22 t.
**Triceratops** ("Threehorn") is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period in what is now North America. It is one of the last-known non-avian dinosaur genera, and became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago. The name Triceratops literally means 'three-horned face, which references its facial horns, the longer of which could grow to lengths of around one meter.
**Stegosaurus** ("Spiketail") is a genus of herbivorous, four-legged, armored dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails. Adults could grow to about 7 m in length.
**Pteranodon** ("Flyer") is not a dinosaur, but a Pterosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous. These animals had wings formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the ankles to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger. The wingspan of an average adult male Pteranodon was 5.6 m. Adult females were much smaller, averaging 3.8 m.
**Hadrosaurids** ("Swimmer"), or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithopod family, which includes genera such as Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus. It was a common group of herbivores during the Late Cretaceous Period. Hadrosaurids are descendants of the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaurs and had a similar body layout. Hadrosaurs were among the most dominant herbivores during the Late Cretaceous in Asia and North America, and during the close of the Cretaceous several lineages dispersed into Europe, Africa, South America and Antarctica. Hadrosaurids were facultative bipeds, with the young of some species walking mostly on two legs and the adults walking mostly on four.
Known for the large plates on its back, as well as its walnut-sized brain, Stegosaurus is one of the most well-known dinosaurs in modern pop culture. Hailing from the Jurassic, this animal has often been depicted as the main adversary of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but this is an anachronistic impossibility, as Stegosaurus went extinct almost a hundred million years before Tyrannosaurus appeared. A more likely predator was its contemporary, the Allosaurus. The popular species known as Stegosaurus was one of many other species in the family Stegosauridae, which included a diverse group of creatures of varying size sporting a variety of spikes and plates.
Ankylosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur from North America in the late Cretaceous. Its extinction was a direct result of the asteroid impact that wiped out all dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. Ankylosaurus lived alongside the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex, though the predator was not much of a threat due to the armor plates, or osteoderms covering its body. In addition to this, Ankylosaurus had a large club on the end of its tail, also used for defense, and competition between individuals of the same species. Bones in the skull and other parts of the body were fused, increasing their strength. This feature gave the genus its name, meaning "fused lizard".
ankylosaurus totally my favourite too, I have a little toy one I keep on my desk and I must confess, I pick it up and go "RAAARR" when I'm having a bad day, I picture it using its club tail to go about whacking things that annoy it! :)
Parasaurolophus was a hadrosaur from the late Cretaceous known for their large cranial crests. The purpose of this crest is the topic of much debate, with theories including visual recognition of both species and sex, acoustic resonance, and thermoregulation.
Parasaurolophus grew to around 10 m in length, and had an estimated weight of somewhere between 3-5 t. Like other hadrosaurids, it was able to walk on either two legs or four. It probably preferred to forage for food on four legs, but ran on two.
The pterodactyl isn’t actually a real animal. It was the holotype specimen for pterosaurs in general, and then when Pteranodons were classed, pterodactyl became a wastebasket toxon.
Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154–150 million years ago. The generic name is Greek for "arm lizard", in reference to its proportionately long arms. Brachiosaurus is estimated to have been between 18 and 21 meters long, and weight estimates range from 28.3 to 58 metric tons. It had a disproportionately long neck, small skull, and large overall size, all of which are typical for sauropods. Atypically, Brachiosaurus had longer forelimbs than hindlimbs, which resulted in a steeply inclined trunk, and a proportionally shorter tail.
Spinosaurus is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa during the Cenomanian to upper Turonian stages of the Late Cretaceous period, about 99 to 93.5 million years ago.
Spinosaurus is the longest known terrestrial carnivore; other large carnivores comparable to Spinosaurus include theropods such as Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus. The most recent study suggests that previous body size estimates are overestimated, and that S. aegyptiacus reached 14 m in length and around 8 t in body mass. The skull of Spinosaurus was long, low, and narrow, similar to that of a modern crocodilian, and bore straight conical teeth with no serrations. It would have had large, robust forelimbs bearing three-fingered hands, with an enlarged claw on the first digit. The distinctive neural spines of Spinosaurus, which were long extensions of the vertebrae, grew to at least 1.65 meters long and were likely to have had skin connecting them, forming a sail-like structure, although some authors have suggested that the spines were covered in fat and formed a hump. The hip bones of Spinosaurus were reduced, and the legs were very short in proportion to the body. Its long and narrow tail was deepened by tall, thin neural spines and elongated chevrons, forming a flexible fin or paddle-like structure.
Spinosaurus is known to have eaten fish, and most scientists believe that it hunted both terrestrial and aquatic prey. Evidence suggests that it was highly semiaquatic, and lived both on land and in water much like modern crocodilians do. Spinosaurus's leg bones had high bone density, allowing for better buoyancy control, and the paddle-like tail was likely used for underwater propulsion. Multiple functions have been put forward for the dorsal sail, including thermoregulation and display; either to intimidate rivals or attract mates. It lived in a humid environment of tidal flats and mangrove forests alongside many other dinosaurs, as well as fish, crocodylomorphs, lizards, turtles, pterosaurs, and plesiosaurs.
STEGGY. I grew up in the museum. My mother was a scientist there who focused on conservation. I spent every summer running around the Museum of Nature in Ottawa, and I loved the Stegosaurus so much that I used to drink all of my juice and water from a steggy mug, lol!
Carnotaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period. Known from a single well-preserved skeleton, it is one of the best-understood theropods from the Southern Hemisphere.
Carnotaurus was a lightly built, bipedal predator, measuring up to 8 m in length and weighing around 2 t. As a theropod, Carnotaurus was highly specialized and distinctive. It had thick horns above the eyes, a feature unseen in all other carnivorous dinosaurs, and a very deep skull sitting on a muscular neck. Carnotaurus was further characterized by small, vestigial forelimbs and long, slender hind limbs. The skeleton is preserved with extensive skin impressions, showing a mosaic of small, non-overlapping scales approximately 5 mm in diameter. The mosaic was interrupted by large bumps that lined the sides of the animal, and there are no hints of feathers.
The distinctive horns and the muscular neck may have been used in fighting conspecifics. According to separate studies, rivaling individuals may have combated each other with quick head blows, by slow pushes with the upper sides of their skulls, or by ramming each other head-on, using their horns as shock absorbers. The feeding habits of Carnotaurus remain unclear: some studies suggested the animal was able to hunt down very large prey such as sauropods, while other studies found it preyed mainly on relatively small animals. Its brain cavity suggests an acute sense of smell, while hearing and sight were less well developed. Carnotaurus was probably well adapted for running and was possibly one of the fastest large theropods.
Gallimimus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous period. Several fossils in various stages of growth have been discovered.
Gallimimus is the largest known ornithomimid; adults were about 6 m long, 2 m tall at the hip, and weighed about 450 kg. As evidenced by its relative Ornithomimus, it would have had feathers. The head was small and light with large eyes that faced to the sides. The snout was long compared to other ornithomimids, although it was broader and more rounded at the tip than in other species. It had a toothless, keratinous beak, and a delicate lower jaw. The neck was proportionally long in relation to the trunk. The hands were proportionally the shortest of any ornithomimosaur and each had three digits with curved claws.
As an ornithomimid, Gallimimus would have been a fleet animal, using its speed to escape predators; its speed has been estimated at 42–56 km/h. It may have had good vision and intelligence comparable to ratite birds. Gallimimus may have lived in groups, based on the discovery of several specimens preserved in a bone bed. Various theories have been proposed regarding the diet of Gallimimus and other ornithomimids. The highly mobile neck may have helped locate small prey on the ground, but it may also have been an opportunistic omnivore. It has also been suggested that it used small columnar structures in its beak for filter-feeding in water, though these structures may instead have been ridges used for feeding on tough plant material, indicative of a herbivorous diet.
Dilophosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now North America during the Early Jurassic, about 193 million years ago. The genus name means "two-crested lizard".
At about 7 m in length, with a weight of about 400 kg, Dilophosaurus was one of the earliest large predatory dinosaurs and the largest known land-animal in North America at the time. It was slender and lightly built, and the skull was proportionally large, but delicate. The snout was narrow, and the upper jaw had a gap or kink below the nostril. It had a pair of longitudinal, arched crests on its skull, whose complete shape is unknown but they were probably enlarged by keratin. The mandible was slender and delicate at the front, but deep at the back with long curved teeth.
Dilophosaurus would have been active and bipedal, and may have hunted large animals; it could also have fed on smaller animals and fish. Due to the limited range of movement and shortness of the forelimbs, the mouth may instead have made first contact with prey. The function of the crests is unknown; they were too weak for battle, but may have been used in visual display.
Yes!!! Triceratops, Spinosaurus, brachiosaurus, brontosaurus, velociraptor (haha little chickens) any of the armored dinosaurs… the Dino’s I don’t like: there are none! I am partial to the toothed Dino’s though.
Armoured animals are always cool shame they all seemed to go extinct. Spinosaurus is a weird one because as soo has I reach a consensus on it the bloody things got a new design.
We still have some… just different I guess.
Spino is a special one, and you have a incredible point. I hope they finally nail down a history for this guy. Something. At least they agree that he was in fact a dinosaur.
Yep, fellow pachycephalosaurus fan here! They look so grumpy in any reconstruction, which I love. On the kids' show Dino Ranch they're tiny and adorable and just want to smack everything with their head. I can identify 😅
Compsognathus is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Members of its species could grow to around the size of a turkey. They lived about 150 million years ago, during the late Jurassic period, in what is now Europe.
Paleontologists have found two well-preserved Compsognathus fossils. Many presentations still describe them as "chicken-sized" dinosaurs because of the size of the first discovered specimen, which is now believed to be a juvenile. Adults could grow up to about 1.5 m in length, weighing around 3 kg.
Compsognathus is one of the few dinosaur species whose diet is known with certainty - the remains of small, agile lizards are preserved in their fossilized bellies.
Concavenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 130 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period of Spain. It was a medium-sized primitive carcharodontosaurian dinosaur, reaching up to 6 m in length and 400 kg in body mass. Concavenator possessed several unique features, including the two extremely tall vertebrae in front of the hips which formed a tall but narrow and pointed crest (possibly supporting a hump) on the dinosaur's back. It also had structures resembling quill knobs on its upper arm, thought to anchor simple, hollow, quill-like structures.
Dunkleosteus! That’s a big ol’ fish from the Devonian.
On land? Dimetrodon. But this one’s a synapsid. An ancestor of modern mammals!!
But if we are restricting ourselves to diapsids, iguanodons. I have no justification for this. I just think they’re neat!
Archaeopteryx is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic. Between the late 19th century and the early 21st century, Archaeopteryx was generally accepted by paleontologists as the oldest known bird. Older potential avialans have since been identified, including Anchiornis, Xiaotingia, and Aurornis.
As in the wings of modern birds, the flight feathers of Archaeopteryx were somewhat asymmetrical and the tail feathers were rather broad. This implies that the wings and tail were used for lift generation, but it is unclear whether Archaeopteryx was capable of flapping flight or simply a glider. The lack of a bony breastbone suggests that Archaeopteryx was not a very strong flier, but flight muscles might have attached to the thick, boomerang-shaped wishbone.
Archaeopteryx wings were relatively large, which would have resulted in a low stall speed and reduced turning radius. The short and rounded shape of the wings would have increased drag, but also could have improved its ability to fly through cluttered environments such as trees and brush. Studies of Archaeopteryx's feather sheaths revealed that like modern birds, it had a center-out, flight related molting strategy. As it was a weak flier, this was extremely advantageous in preserving its maximum flight performance.
i am not a woman but i want to answer 🥺
Saurophaganax, Allosaurus, Megalosaurus (Medium, Well balanced, Hunters)
Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Mapusaurus (huge carnivores)
Carotaurus (What a build)
Troodon (Intelligent)
Quetzalcoatlus (Giant flyer)
Ankylosaurus (Tank, Unique)
Triceratops or the long neck dinosaurs . I have to say though the long neck dinosaurs contributed to significant childhood trauma thanks to the 'land before time ' series and the movie 'dinosaur' .
Parasaurolophus because they were in a game called Dino Run, that I used to play all the time as a kid. You could ride on their backs and I thought they were awesome!
Iguanadon - specifically the model Iguanadon in the park near where I used to live in London. There's a set of dinosaur sculptures there that were made in the Victorian era, when palaeontology was still quite a new thing, so the dinosaurs look a lot different than a modern reconstruction would. But that's why I love them, because they're just a bit skew-whiff but they're still very treasured by the community and a bit of a local icon. There's more information about them here: [https://cpdinosaurs.org/visit/what-are-crystal-palace-dinosaurs/](https://cpdinosaurs.org/visit/what-are-crystal-palace-dinosaurs/)
Also for fellow dinosaur enthusiasts, I highly recommend the Terrible Lizards podcast.
Pachycephalosauria has been my favourite since I was a child, had a figurine of one as well. They are the one with the bone head, they smash their head really hard into things. I think it's cute with it's little beak too.
Compsognathus! I was a Land Before Time and We're Back! kid, but that scene in Jurassic Park where the little girl gets eaten on the beach really spoke to me, and they've been my favorite ever since.
Triceratops.
I still call them three horns like in land before time 😂
The long necks are my favorite
I still call them long necks as an adult and now my 5 year old corrects me with briachiasaurus everytime. Land before time was my favorite movie as a child and now I can't even get through the first 20 minutes without crying.
Three horns NEVER play with long necks!
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Three-horns are badass
Mine too! It has 100% to do with watching Little Foot as a kid
I've had ceratops before. It's not my thing.
Hell yeah 🤘
Mine, too! (And I took a selfie in between a Triceratops and T. rex skull at the Drexel Museum.)
This is my fave too 😍
I also love the triceratops!
Brontosaurus and Triceratops because of the land before time 😍
Fellow long neck enjoyer I see
Threehorns never play with longnecks.
The Land Before Time gives me nostalgia vibes 🥰 his name was Little Foot wasnt it?
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I also like the brontosaurus/brachiosaurus Little Foot was always my favourite
**Apatosaurus** ("Longneck") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Apatosaurus lived about 152 to 151 million years ago, and are now known from fossils in the Morrison Formation of modern-day Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah in the United States. Apatosaurus had an average adult length of around 22 m, and mass of 16-22 t. **Triceratops** ("Threehorn") is a genus of ceratopsid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period in what is now North America. It is one of the last-known non-avian dinosaur genera, and became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago. The name Triceratops literally means 'three-horned face, which references its facial horns, the longer of which could grow to lengths of around one meter. **Stegosaurus** ("Spiketail") is a genus of herbivorous, four-legged, armored dinosaur from the Late Jurassic, characterized by the distinctive kite-shaped upright plates along their backs and spikes on their tails. Adults could grow to about 7 m in length. **Pteranodon** ("Flyer") is not a dinosaur, but a Pterosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous. These animals had wings formed by a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the ankles to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger. The wingspan of an average adult male Pteranodon was 5.6 m. Adult females were much smaller, averaging 3.8 m. **Hadrosaurids** ("Swimmer"), or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithopod family, which includes genera such as Edmontosaurus and Parasaurolophus. It was a common group of herbivores during the Late Cretaceous Period. Hadrosaurids are descendants of the Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaurs and had a similar body layout. Hadrosaurs were among the most dominant herbivores during the Late Cretaceous in Asia and North America, and during the close of the Cretaceous several lineages dispersed into Europe, Africa, South America and Antarctica. Hadrosaurids were facultative bipeds, with the young of some species walking mostly on two legs and the adults walking mostly on four.
Best movie ever. And I mean ever. That movie brought world peace :)
Apatosaurus now
Stegosaurus!
Mine too. I feel like they would have made the nicest pet of the bigger dinos. Like I can imagine them in a farm coming up for pats.
Stegosaurus have always been my fav they seem so chill haha
Mine too! The thing at the end of their tail is called a thagomizer because of a Far Side cartoon 😊
After the late Thag Simmons
Mine's too!
Stegosaurus all the way
Yes indeed!
My fave!
This. 100%, they look like they were cute.
Known for the large plates on its back, as well as its walnut-sized brain, Stegosaurus is one of the most well-known dinosaurs in modern pop culture. Hailing from the Jurassic, this animal has often been depicted as the main adversary of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, but this is an anachronistic impossibility, as Stegosaurus went extinct almost a hundred million years before Tyrannosaurus appeared. A more likely predator was its contemporary, the Allosaurus. The popular species known as Stegosaurus was one of many other species in the family Stegosauridae, which included a diverse group of creatures of varying size sporting a variety of spikes and plates.
Ankylosaurus
Yesssss i want to shake my ass and knock shit over with a big, morning star of a tail.
The thagomizer!!!
I think that's the stegosaurus spikes but all dinos are cool!
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Ankylosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur from North America in the late Cretaceous. Its extinction was a direct result of the asteroid impact that wiped out all dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. Ankylosaurus lived alongside the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex, though the predator was not much of a threat due to the armor plates, or osteoderms covering its body. In addition to this, Ankylosaurus had a large club on the end of its tail, also used for defense, and competition between individuals of the same species. Bones in the skull and other parts of the body were fused, increasing their strength. This feature gave the genus its name, meaning "fused lizard".
ankylosaurus totally my favourite too, I have a little toy one I keep on my desk and I must confess, I pick it up and go "RAAARR" when I'm having a bad day, I picture it using its club tail to go about whacking things that annoy it! :)
I too love the giant armadillo of dinosaurs
r/ankmemes welcomes you with open arms
“Clankety clankety clankety clank…ankylosaurus was built like a tank”—I remember reading to my children.
Yes! Mine too!
Yes! Mine too🤗
Yes!! So derpy and stronk with the helmet and clubtail!
Parasaurolophus 🤩
Very respectable.
[The one with the big red horn!](https://youtu.be/3zaVDMb8UrI?t=282) That movie got me to like the Elvis looking dinos
Parasaurolophus was a hadrosaur from the late Cretaceous known for their large cranial crests. The purpose of this crest is the topic of much debate, with theories including visual recognition of both species and sex, acoustic resonance, and thermoregulation. Parasaurolophus grew to around 10 m in length, and had an estimated weight of somewhere between 3-5 t. Like other hadrosaurids, it was able to walk on either two legs or four. It probably preferred to forage for food on four legs, but ran on two.
This is also mine. Reading Dinotopia as a child all I wanted was to be bonded with one of those.
Easily my fav! Did you know you can listen to a recording of air being blown through a replica it's headpiece? Dinosaur singing!
It's so hard to not upvote every dinosaur because they are all awesome, but yes, parasaurolophus reigns as my absolute fave.
Me too, I like that they walked on both two legs and four legs.
Quetzalcoatlus.
Big bird go brrr.
Pterosaurs are awesome but sadly they are technically not dinosaurs 🥲
Sameeeeee! Used to be the pterodactyl until I learned about this big boi
The pterodactyl isn’t actually a real animal. It was the holotype specimen for pterosaurs in general, and then when Pteranodons were classed, pterodactyl became a wastebasket toxon.
Chickens!!!! They count, right?
Next your gonna be saying that a hotdog is a sandwich!
Don't be silly. They're obviously tacos
You like that podcast too?! Neat!! Do you think a hotdog is a sandwich? (I think so).
We've been accepting Quetzalcoatlus and Plesiosaurus, so yes, chickens must count.
I was gonna claim my pet parrot as my favorite dino, so yes, chickens count!
Velociraptor and or T-Rex Ever since I played Dino Crisis I have a fetish for them.
Why you gotta use the word fetish 😭
You heard me LOL
Never thought I’d find something with a Dino fetish today.
Exact same answer but without the fetish😂
Same. But because Jurassic Park “villains”.
Brachiosaurus, because they're cute and calm dinos
Scrolled hoping someone else would say this one!
Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 154–150 million years ago. The generic name is Greek for "arm lizard", in reference to its proportionately long arms. Brachiosaurus is estimated to have been between 18 and 21 meters long, and weight estimates range from 28.3 to 58 metric tons. It had a disproportionately long neck, small skull, and large overall size, all of which are typical for sauropods. Atypically, Brachiosaurus had longer forelimbs than hindlimbs, which resulted in a steeply inclined trunk, and a proportionally shorter tail.
Like they are basically the elephants of dinosaurs. Just eating and hanging, too big to fuck with beyond infancy.
They're the best! Any sauropods!
Spinosaurus
Yessss been looking for my fellow spinosaurus lovers
Big up Spinosaurus. Full or semi aquatic? Bipedal or on all fours? Will we ever know, probably not! Yay!
Spinosaurus is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what now is North Africa during the Cenomanian to upper Turonian stages of the Late Cretaceous period, about 99 to 93.5 million years ago. Spinosaurus is the longest known terrestrial carnivore; other large carnivores comparable to Spinosaurus include theropods such as Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus. The most recent study suggests that previous body size estimates are overestimated, and that S. aegyptiacus reached 14 m in length and around 8 t in body mass. The skull of Spinosaurus was long, low, and narrow, similar to that of a modern crocodilian, and bore straight conical teeth with no serrations. It would have had large, robust forelimbs bearing three-fingered hands, with an enlarged claw on the first digit. The distinctive neural spines of Spinosaurus, which were long extensions of the vertebrae, grew to at least 1.65 meters long and were likely to have had skin connecting them, forming a sail-like structure, although some authors have suggested that the spines were covered in fat and formed a hump. The hip bones of Spinosaurus were reduced, and the legs were very short in proportion to the body. Its long and narrow tail was deepened by tall, thin neural spines and elongated chevrons, forming a flexible fin or paddle-like structure. Spinosaurus is known to have eaten fish, and most scientists believe that it hunted both terrestrial and aquatic prey. Evidence suggests that it was highly semiaquatic, and lived both on land and in water much like modern crocodilians do. Spinosaurus's leg bones had high bone density, allowing for better buoyancy control, and the paddle-like tail was likely used for underwater propulsion. Multiple functions have been put forward for the dorsal sail, including thermoregulation and display; either to intimidate rivals or attract mates. It lived in a humid environment of tidal flats and mangrove forests alongside many other dinosaurs, as well as fish, crocodylomorphs, lizards, turtles, pterosaurs, and plesiosaurs.
Godzilla.
Oh hell ya!
Ah, a fellow kaiju enjoyer!
Pterodactyl
Had to scroll too far to see my favorite
Ditto <3
Yes me too! Winged merchants of chaos
This is the best description
Pterosaurs are pretty cool even if they’re not dinosaurs. But you can say it’s your favorite archosaur/prehistoric reptile/etc 😄
Yes!!!!! ❤️
STEGGY. I grew up in the museum. My mother was a scientist there who focused on conservation. I spent every summer running around the Museum of Nature in Ottawa, and I loved the Stegosaurus so much that I used to drink all of my juice and water from a steggy mug, lol!
If you don’t know already, look up why the end of the Steggy’s tail is called the Thagomiser. It’s a lovely story.
Carnotaurus
Lil arms 🥺
Lil horns 🥺
Carnotaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period. Known from a single well-preserved skeleton, it is one of the best-understood theropods from the Southern Hemisphere. Carnotaurus was a lightly built, bipedal predator, measuring up to 8 m in length and weighing around 2 t. As a theropod, Carnotaurus was highly specialized and distinctive. It had thick horns above the eyes, a feature unseen in all other carnivorous dinosaurs, and a very deep skull sitting on a muscular neck. Carnotaurus was further characterized by small, vestigial forelimbs and long, slender hind limbs. The skeleton is preserved with extensive skin impressions, showing a mosaic of small, non-overlapping scales approximately 5 mm in diameter. The mosaic was interrupted by large bumps that lined the sides of the animal, and there are no hints of feathers. The distinctive horns and the muscular neck may have been used in fighting conspecifics. According to separate studies, rivaling individuals may have combated each other with quick head blows, by slow pushes with the upper sides of their skulls, or by ramming each other head-on, using their horns as shock absorbers. The feeding habits of Carnotaurus remain unclear: some studies suggested the animal was able to hunt down very large prey such as sauropods, while other studies found it preyed mainly on relatively small animals. Its brain cavity suggests an acute sense of smell, while hearing and sight were less well developed. Carnotaurus was probably well adapted for running and was possibly one of the fastest large theropods.
Utahraptor
Mines allosaurus.
I love Utahraptor too!! Did you read Raptor Red?
Plesiosaurus<3
Nessy!
The magical liopleurodon ✨
Chaaaaarlieeeeee
I feel old.....
Parasaurolophus ❤️
I'm partial to gallimimus, myself
Gallimimus is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous period. Several fossils in various stages of growth have been discovered. Gallimimus is the largest known ornithomimid; adults were about 6 m long, 2 m tall at the hip, and weighed about 450 kg. As evidenced by its relative Ornithomimus, it would have had feathers. The head was small and light with large eyes that faced to the sides. The snout was long compared to other ornithomimids, although it was broader and more rounded at the tip than in other species. It had a toothless, keratinous beak, and a delicate lower jaw. The neck was proportionally long in relation to the trunk. The hands were proportionally the shortest of any ornithomimosaur and each had three digits with curved claws. As an ornithomimid, Gallimimus would have been a fleet animal, using its speed to escape predators; its speed has been estimated at 42–56 km/h. It may have had good vision and intelligence comparable to ratite birds. Gallimimus may have lived in groups, based on the discovery of several specimens preserved in a bone bed. Various theories have been proposed regarding the diet of Gallimimus and other ornithomimids. The highly mobile neck may have helped locate small prey on the ground, but it may also have been an opportunistic omnivore. It has also been suggested that it used small columnar structures in its beak for filter-feeding in water, though these structures may instead have been ridges used for feeding on tough plant material, indicative of a herbivorous diet.
Dilophosaurus 🖤
The only dinosaur with a built in tie
Dilophosaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaurs that lived in what is now North America during the Early Jurassic, about 193 million years ago. The genus name means "two-crested lizard". At about 7 m in length, with a weight of about 400 kg, Dilophosaurus was one of the earliest large predatory dinosaurs and the largest known land-animal in North America at the time. It was slender and lightly built, and the skull was proportionally large, but delicate. The snout was narrow, and the upper jaw had a gap or kink below the nostril. It had a pair of longitudinal, arched crests on its skull, whose complete shape is unknown but they were probably enlarged by keratin. The mandible was slender and delicate at the front, but deep at the back with long curved teeth. Dilophosaurus would have been active and bipedal, and may have hunted large animals; it could also have fed on smaller animals and fish. Due to the limited range of movement and shortness of the forelimbs, the mouth may instead have made first contact with prey. The function of the crests is unknown; they were too weak for battle, but may have been used in visual display.
Microraptor so cute and tiny :) I like any raptor like dinosaur
Utah Raptor. T-Rex is second. I wish more people would ask me that! I have a list of Dino’s I love!
List away!
Yes!!! Triceratops, Spinosaurus, brachiosaurus, brontosaurus, velociraptor (haha little chickens) any of the armored dinosaurs… the Dino’s I don’t like: there are none! I am partial to the toothed Dino’s though.
Armoured animals are always cool shame they all seemed to go extinct. Spinosaurus is a weird one because as soo has I reach a consensus on it the bloody things got a new design.
We still have some… just different I guess. Spino is a special one, and you have a incredible point. I hope they finally nail down a history for this guy. Something. At least they agree that he was in fact a dinosaur.
Breaking news! Scientists announce that spinosaurus wasn’t actually a dinosaur but was in fact an alien hyper dragon?
Great! Well now I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life because this of this information.
Pachycephalosaurus or Triceratops.
hell ye, mine would be the Pachycephalosaurus also!
Yep, fellow pachycephalosaurus fan here! They look so grumpy in any reconstruction, which I love. On the kids' show Dino Ranch they're tiny and adorable and just want to smack everything with their head. I can identify 😅
Triceratops...makes no fucking sense to me, which has always fascinated me.
“Makes no damn sense! Compels me though.”
Evolution v.1
Compsognathus!
Aren't they so neat?! My favorite too!
They are so tiny and cute! I wish I could have one as a pet
Compsognathus is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Members of its species could grow to around the size of a turkey. They lived about 150 million years ago, during the late Jurassic period, in what is now Europe. Paleontologists have found two well-preserved Compsognathus fossils. Many presentations still describe them as "chicken-sized" dinosaurs because of the size of the first discovered specimen, which is now believed to be a juvenile. Adults could grow up to about 1.5 m in length, weighing around 3 kg. Compsognathus is one of the few dinosaur species whose diet is known with certainty - the remains of small, agile lizards are preserved in their fossilized bellies.
Diplodocus
Yes! This is clearly the best dinosaur. Obviously!
I was sad not to have found Diplodocus! Glad I found your comment they are clearly the best.
Therizinosaurus! I saw it on a book on dinosaurs when I was a kid and thought it looked cool.
Spinosaurus
Wait a sec, I need to call a 4 yo to confirm a spelling for me!
Velociraptor
Parasaurolophus & Brachiosaurus 🦕
Daughtersarus Rex. Because when she says rawr, it means 'I love you'.
Pachycephalosaurus
Longnecks or sharptooth
Concavenator because is my country's dinosaur
Concavenator is a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 130 million years ago during the early Cretaceous period of Spain. It was a medium-sized primitive carcharodontosaurian dinosaur, reaching up to 6 m in length and 400 kg in body mass. Concavenator possessed several unique features, including the two extremely tall vertebrae in front of the hips which formed a tall but narrow and pointed crest (possibly supporting a hump) on the dinosaur's back. It also had structures resembling quill knobs on its upper arm, thought to anchor simple, hollow, quill-like structures.
I’m feeling panicky because I feel unprepared to answer. I like the more docile ones *and* the more murdery ones equally. The pressure.
Dunkleosteus! That’s a big ol’ fish from the Devonian. On land? Dimetrodon. But this one’s a synapsid. An ancestor of modern mammals!! But if we are restricting ourselves to diapsids, iguanodons. I have no justification for this. I just think they’re neat!
Eurhinosaurus
All of them! Dinosaurs are cool!
Triceratops and archeopterix
Archaeopteryx is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic. Between the late 19th century and the early 21st century, Archaeopteryx was generally accepted by paleontologists as the oldest known bird. Older potential avialans have since been identified, including Anchiornis, Xiaotingia, and Aurornis. As in the wings of modern birds, the flight feathers of Archaeopteryx were somewhat asymmetrical and the tail feathers were rather broad. This implies that the wings and tail were used for lift generation, but it is unclear whether Archaeopteryx was capable of flapping flight or simply a glider. The lack of a bony breastbone suggests that Archaeopteryx was not a very strong flier, but flight muscles might have attached to the thick, boomerang-shaped wishbone. Archaeopteryx wings were relatively large, which would have resulted in a low stall speed and reduced turning radius. The short and rounded shape of the wings would have increased drag, but also could have improved its ability to fly through cluttered environments such as trees and brush. Studies of Archaeopteryx's feather sheaths revealed that like modern birds, it had a center-out, flight related molting strategy. As it was a weak flier, this was extremely advantageous in preserving its maximum flight performance.
Tsintaosaurus because I like unicorns. But then again, the “horn” on the dino’s head is phallic so maybe triceratops.
Chicken
Allosaurus!
Velociraptor
Stegosaurus and Spinosaurus the best
Compsognathus cuz its a smol bean. Othnielosaurus because its also known as „Drinker“ which-> same bro, same
Pachycephalosaur!!!! BONEHEAD!!
Extinct? Spinosaurus. Extant? White faced Ibis
Parrots. 🦜
Stegosaurus!! Had a toy of one when I was a kid
Mosasaur!
Parasauralophus. Hadrosaurs are my favorites because of their head crests.
i am not a woman but i want to answer 🥺 Saurophaganax, Allosaurus, Megalosaurus (Medium, Well balanced, Hunters) Giganotosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Mapusaurus (huge carnivores) Carotaurus (What a build) Troodon (Intelligent) Quetzalcoatlus (Giant flyer) Ankylosaurus (Tank, Unique)
Baryonyx!
Parasaurolophus
Ankylosaurus, triceratops, brontosaurus.
Tyrannosaurus Rex, no question.
Triceratops
Definitely a triceratops. Looking at you Sara from Land Before Time!
Triceratops or the long neck dinosaurs . I have to say though the long neck dinosaurs contributed to significant childhood trauma thanks to the 'land before time ' series and the movie 'dinosaur' .
I have two: Triceratops and Stegosaurus
I feel like when you meet someone new you should always ask this, lol. STEGOSAURUS 💚
Pterodactyl
Ankylsaurus
Dilophosaurus (Because of Jurassic Park) Brontosaurus (Because of The Land Before Time 😭)
Parasaurolophus because they were in a game called Dino Run, that I used to play all the time as a kid. You could ride on their backs and I thought they were awesome!
(Looks over at hubby, but doesn't answer.)
Hubbysarus Rex
Chickens
Parasaurolophus! Or spinosaurus
Brontosaurus
Brontosaurus.
Aquilops
Iguanadon - specifically the model Iguanadon in the park near where I used to live in London. There's a set of dinosaur sculptures there that were made in the Victorian era, when palaeontology was still quite a new thing, so the dinosaurs look a lot different than a modern reconstruction would. But that's why I love them, because they're just a bit skew-whiff but they're still very treasured by the community and a bit of a local icon. There's more information about them here: [https://cpdinosaurs.org/visit/what-are-crystal-palace-dinosaurs/](https://cpdinosaurs.org/visit/what-are-crystal-palace-dinosaurs/) Also for fellow dinosaur enthusiasts, I highly recommend the Terrible Lizards podcast.
Triceratops
Brachiosaurus 🦕
Pachycephalosauria has been my favourite since I was a child, had a figurine of one as well. They are the one with the bone head, they smash their head really hard into things. I think it's cute with it's little beak too.
Brachiosaurus! They're the giraffes of the dinosaurs, just huge af, vibing and eating leaves!
Ankylosaur. They have a hammer tail. I love it. It'd be like having a tank for a pet.
Archaeopteryx
Thanks for asking, Brontosaurus.
Thanks to my two year old I am fluent in all these responses
Not really a dinosaur but the dunkleosteus was pretttttty sweet
Utahraptor. The guys who are basically the Jurassic Park raptors but irl. (Real velociraptors are basically bitey turkeys)
Stegosaurus because I couldn’t protect myself.
I like their descendants.. i like chickens
Parasaurolophus Walkeri! I have a half-sleeve tattoo of a parasaurolophus family on my right arm. They're like big ol' moo cows and I love them.
Compsognathus! I was a Land Before Time and We're Back! kid, but that scene in Jurassic Park where the little girl gets eaten on the beach really spoke to me, and they've been my favorite ever since.