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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.
Chicken. It tastes good.
Apparently Pterodactyls aren't Dinosaurs :(
Also, I think this belongs here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/23/dinosaurs-asteroid-struck-research
The little tiny raptor things. I don't remember what they're called.
Compys! Or Compsognathus if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
Ankylosaurus is a strong contender. Really strong contender. But stegosaurus is still MVP.
This thread is the best booster-pack.
Titanosaurs! 100+ feet long, 100+ tonnes. Imagine if a blue whale had legs and a long neck. And it walked around. We would be like mice to them, or insects to the largest ones.
Camarasaurus, because I found a tooth of one while volunteering on a dig site
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Therazinosaurus. What even is this thing? Look at this big pokey boi:
Looks like a herbivore who discovered a love for really fresh ham.
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Triceratops. The only thing wrong with rhinos are that they have too few horns and not enough armor plating.
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I like the triceratops. Having three pointy bits makes it 50% more awesome than rhinos.
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Pachycephalosaurus the thick headed one
I always thought they'd sound like coconuts when they rammed together.
The head knocking matches those things must have had within their species would have been insane! Like goats, only like, a hundred goats per goat.
Edit: Apparently, they were not that big, so maybe only like two handfuls of goats. Which is still a lot of goats.
Wonder if there were fainting Pachycephalosaurs. :)
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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.
Stegos all the way. 🥰
There any love here for Icthyosaurus?
Just looks like a big derpy lemony shaped dolphin, with a snoot that 76% more boopable.
Diplodocus
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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!
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Steggy sore ass
Sauropods because BIG
But really, I mean look at those things!! They traveled together in herds and the size of them meant that as they walked, the strata of the earth was fucking shuffled. How cool is that?????
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.
When I was a kid I really liked allosaurus. Everyone knew and liked tyrannosaurus, which made him too mainstream. I also had a book with really cool visualisation of allosaurus which helped me to prefer this bad mf.
Allosaurus is like a T-Rex that never skipped arm day. Respect.
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Quetzalcoatlus. Technically it isn't a dinosaur but that makes it - and me accordingly - even more special.
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