• @[email protected]
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    5015 days ago

    I just want to say that anyone who picks pterodactyl, ichthyosaurus, or mosasaurus as their favourite dinosaurs is wrong because none of those are dinosaurs.

    Having said that, I like triceratops, which isn’t on the list for some reason. I guess I’ll pick styracosaurus since it’s similar.

    • @prettybunnys
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      715 days ago

      I haven’t checked in a while but I THOUGHT it was believed triceratops is now just a juvenile other dinosaur

      • Rhaedas
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        That was news to me. The wiki for Torosaurus is a deep rabbit hole, and since fossilization is rare and we have to go with what little we can find, this will probably be a long debate either way.

        With that being said, whatever the name, three horn dino is best dino! And weird that the meme wouldn’t have one on there, since it has always been a well known dinosaur in movies and toys.

      • @[email protected]
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        715 days ago

        I know it’s been debated back and forth with a lot of the ceratopsian dinosaurs. Torosaurus was the one they think/thought is the adult version of a triceratops. I’m not sure where the consensus stands now though.

        • Redjard
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          Consensus is probably not.

          • We don’t have transition forms
          • We probably have young Torosaurs (which are not Triceratops)
          • Holes in the skull would have to form atypically late for ceratopsidae
          • some other stuff I forgot
    • Redjard
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      314 days ago

      My favorite dinosaur is Plesiosaurus.

      What are you gonna do about it? >:)

  • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
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    3915 days ago

    “raptor”

    There’s more than one kind of raptor, buddy. Also why doesn’t the raptor have feathers? If you’re gonna mush all the raptors together into a single species, at least draw the feathers. This is offensive to theropods around the world as it turns us into a homogeneous, featherless caricature.

  • @[email protected]
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    3415 days ago

    I think “ankylosaurus” is misspelled. The only reason I know that is because it has always been my favorite dinosaur.

    • halyk.the.red
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      414 days ago

      Same, and I was getting concerned when I got halfway down the list and I didn’t see it yet. I’ve always liked the pterodactyl as well, because it’s basically the closest we’ll get to a wyvern.

  • @[email protected]
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    2414 days ago

    I’ll pick the Stegosaurus… but only because the Triceratops is conspicuously absent from this chart.

    (Secret fighter menu?)

  • @[email protected]
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    1614 days ago

    3 of those aren’t dinosaurs, but I would go with the mosasaur. Giant sea snake that ruled the oceans.

    • @Piemanding
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      114 days ago

      If Ark is anything to go by, the mosasaur is the most powerful of them all.

  • kbin_space_program
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    Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.

    Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.

    For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.

    It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.

    The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.

    So to sum up, we have a heavily built, seemingly aquactic crocodile like dinosaur with teeth and jaws built for active hunting. But wouldnt be that fast on land (heavy bones and giant spines) and cant swim like a croc or gator(no muscles for that.) And it doesn’t have a long neck like a heron or pleisiosaur.

    Best of all, the most complete skeleton of spinosaurus was destroyed in WW2, so we don’t even have that to work from.

  • @SapphironZA
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    1415 days ago

    Ankilosaurus.

    Because nothing says antisocial quite like bony back armor and a big ass hammer.

    • kbin_space_program
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      Stegosaurus does have the Thagomizer, so named by The Far Side comics, and officially given that name because scientists didnt give it a name before that.

    • Optional
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      414 days ago

      He protecc

      He attacc

      He got spikes on his bacc

      (Plus I bet he talks like Eeyore)

  • @jballs
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    715 days ago

    Brontosaurus because Land Before Time was the shit