Stegosaurus. Back plates, tail spikes, and dat thick booty.
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I like stego because they had 2 brains. A tiny one in the head and a larger one mid spine.
I have this feeling that Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic park, fucking hated the Stegosaurus. Every time it comes up in the book he shit talks it relentlessly for being stupid, clumsy, and wholly incapable of self preservation.
I'm younger than he would be and we were taught that stegosaurs were so dumb they had to have a second brain in their spine to run their ass end.
Which turns out to likely be entirely made up.
That's the point! :) Crichton never got updated it seems. In retrospect, it's kinda hard to believe they were dumber than cows or chickens. No large animal could survive being as dumb as they were made out.
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Denver, the Last Dinosaur
He's my friend and a whole lot more!
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.
The peregrine falcon. Because it’s the fastest animal (that we know of)!
enanthiornes, the "opposite birds" that are not related to the birds as we know it.
Mine is Triceratops, they look cool with their horns and frill. They were cool because they could defend themselves from T-Rex in the books.
Any of the Hadrosauridae. Probably Lambeosaurus, specifically for the cover to one of the Dinotopia paperbacks:
More recently it has been determined that hadrosaur likely walked most frequently on all fours, with a larger tail. Still amazing looking creatures (credit to Gabriel Ugueto for the art):
Yer mum
Your grandma
Apparently Pterodactyls aren't Dinosaurs :(
Also, I think this belongs here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/23/dinosaurs-asteroid-struck-research
Stegos all the way. 🥰
Young me: triceratops all the way. A bulldozer with horns, plus it wouldn't eat me. Not as over the top with horns as styracosaurus.
Current me: ankylosaurs. Always thought they were unique, but young me also found them weird looking. Now I see it as a giant armadillo with a massive club.
Shout out to ichthyosaurs and pterosaurs. Not dinos but very awesome and terrifying creatures. I feel much safer knowing neither is around anymore though. gh.
Any dead one. They are f-ing dangerous.
This thread is the best booster-pack.
I have a soft spot for two dinos because of videogames:
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Giganotosaurus: Because Dino Crisis 2. I mean, I know that its size was greatly exaggerated, but I'll never forget how damn frightening it was when you were about to fight the T. rex and suddenly, bam!, a fucking thing twice it's size appeared and kicked its ass like it was nothing.
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Utahraptor. Many years ago, there was a little game called "Primal Prey", where you could go back in time and hunt for dinos. I thought (again) that the T. rex would be the most frightening, but when I got to the part where you have to hunt for the Utahraptor, oh boy, I almost pissed myself because this dude appeared behind me out of nowhere and killed me in an instant. Since then I've really liked this species.