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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Where's my ankylosaurus gang at?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Me! Always thought that club was badass

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Another community missing (?) from lemmy - /r/ankmemes.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yo, me too! Though as a kid I thought it was anklyosaurus, and somehow related to ankles.

Unless we're allowed to include extant dinosaur species. In which case the bush stone-curlew is my fav. ❤️ those adorable screemy bois.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Definitely ankle related. Think how it can shatter ankles with that tail.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When my wife drives and we come to a complete stop, if the car next to me has their window down I usually try to ask them their favorite dinosaur. So far only one person has gotten really mad at me, most people just get confused.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

How dare you bother me in public! /s

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Triceratops was always my fav.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's dozens of us (if you count lurkers)

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Brontosaurus. Just a gigantic chill dude.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

chickens are definitely my favourite dinosaur, tastiest one plus they lay big eggs.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Found the guy who never ate fried microraptor wings.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

yet to find it in local stores sadly, and i'm unwilling to order food online.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'm a stegosaurus man myself.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. I don't know what it is about them but yeah, stegosaurus are cool.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Growing up is learning your favorite dinosaur isn't actually a dinosaur. (mine was pterodactyl)

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Growing up is learning your favorite bird is a dinosaur

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Feathered T-Rex. The theory is that those useless little arms are actually supposed to be wings makes more sense. Do they fly? No, and neither do ostriches. Probably glide tho.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

With wings that tiny I doubt a T-Rex was doing much gliding either, considering its size.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Maybe falling with style? No, probably not that either.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They Naruto run after you. Thats gotta be it lol

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

When I think dinosaur, I think Dimetrodon

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago
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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Ankylosaurus, give me a living tank with a club for a tail that could likely damage a real tank.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Diplodocus, because I love the name

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Triceratops people hold strong!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Archaeopteryx

It is to our understanding of dinosaur & avian evolution what Lucy is to our understanding of human evolution. Also it looks cool.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I always like pterodactyls, specifically the classic big lizard ones. I do have a tiny Dimetrodon in my pc case though that I got out of a crane machine.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs, FYI: they're pterosaurs. It doesn't matter in the least, but I have a 5-year-old so I'm learning a lot about prehistoric reptiles.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nor is dimetrodon haha. They're all excellent though

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There's two big groups of four-limbed vertebrates: amphibians (like frogs), and amniotes (like us and birds). Amniotes developed into two groups: synapsids (mammals) and saurapsids (lizards, birds, turtles, etc.).

Dimetrodon was a synapsid that ruled the world tens of millions of years before the first dinosaurs evolved.

That makes it really cool, actually, precisely because it isn't a dinosaur. Dimetrodon is to us as brotosaurus is to chickens: a really interesting great great etc uncle.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm just fascinated by the sauropods. The big ones. I'm gonna go with Supersaurus (because super! Lol)

Sci Am article on how sauropods evolved to be huge over and over again

Of all the animals ever to have roamed the planet, the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods stand unrivaled. No other terrestrial creatures have come close to attaining their colossal sizes.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Ravens.

Hey, I'm technically more correct than everyone who chose dimetrodon, pterosaurs, plesiosauroidea, or crocodilians.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

As a child, Velociraptor, as an adult I probably wouldn't choose a velociraptor because of how deadly they are. I would probably choose a more friendly docile dinosaur but I honestly don't know what the best one would be.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Brachiosaurus because they look as some kind of fictional creature.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I would genuinely rather hear what everyone's favorite dinosaur is, than who their favorite sports team is. Yet, society thinks I should care whole lot about the latter...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hard to choose.
Nodosaurus: (mummified then fossilized: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummified-armored-dinosaur-makes-its-debut-1-180963311/)
Microraptor: 4 winged dinosaur
Allosaurus
Apatosaurus

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Deinonychus, definitely :)

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Mine are crows and pigeons. Those count, right?

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Spinosaurus until the end.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

As long as we are using looser definitions mine are Pleisosaurus for an aquatic, Pterodactyl for air and Brachiosaurus for land.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

i always liked compsognathus
they're just little guys

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ankylosaurus peeps, stand the fuck up.

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