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rufus_hobart

Ha, nice choices @typo_tilly‌ my personal fave is also an anklyosaurus called the Minmi. Less spiny than most, it has more of a crocodilian back plated armour, and looks like a giant land turtle with longer legs.

Ravenslight

I think I would have to go with Aegyptosaurus or Argentinosaurus. I have found the thought of these gentle giants walking the earth fascinating ever since I was a little girl. I once carved one out of a piece of fossilized dinosaur bone. I think it is still my favorite carving simply because of the pleasure it brought me symbolically bringing it back to life in my carving.

DreadKhan

I made my poor mother read dinosaur books to me as a toddler. As a kid I like Ankylosaurus and Deinonychus. Spinosaurus is pretty cool, more an aquatic dinosaur I guess, making it a bit unusual. It probably was much better at swimming than running, and was about the biggest carnivorous dinosaur.

Now, in my old age I'm more interested in reptilians... both marine reptiles like the gargantuan pliosaurs and the terrestrial crocodillians. Some could eat pretty big dinosaurs, and pliosaurs were almost implausibly big. Ichthyosaurs are the most bizzare reptile I can think of... looked like a cross between a dolphin and a shark, and probably some traveled in pods. Some could dive to mindboggling depths, and they had live births. They're the platypus of their era imo.

CoryNewb

Easy, Corythosaurus (great name!)



Also, as far as the topic title goes, are we not allowed to pick dinosaurs that aren't extinct?

DreadKhan

CoryNewb said:

Easy, Corythosaurus (great name!)



Also, as far as the topic title goes, are we not allowed to pick dinosaurs that aren't extinct?

Keep your chickens to yourself!

CrevsDaak

I was a huge lover of dinosaurs when I was young, and now I'm unable to recall a single name! My name-associated memory sucks.

Zanian

The Pterodactylus, the flying spear-like dinosaurs. (Though technically speaking, they're not actually dinosaurs, but more like birds).

The Pliosaur, the monster of the deep sea, capable of biting an unfortunate T-Rex' head clean off. (Although, again, technically not a dinosaur, but a lizard.)

For some reason, most of my favorite ones aren't even the usual land reptiles.

I collected pages with pictures (beautifully colored ones too) and information of various dinosaurs some 20 years back. I still have the folder with all the pages. There's probably a good 200 ones in it.

DreadKhan

*waits patiently, ready to pounce, for the sucker that says brontosaurus*

Night_Watch

Going to have to go with the stegosaurus, only because of Fantasia. I like to root for the underdog

Teflon

Archaeopteryx, imagine fluffy dino how cute.

dunbar

The Coelacanth - you have to admire it's tenacity. Edit: Sorry, forgot the 'extinct' bit (I think I'll go to bed now).

DreadKhan

dunbar said:

The Coelacanth - you have to admire it's tenacity. Edit: Sorry, forgot the 'extinct' bit (I think I'll go to bed now).

...and the dinosaur bit? Don't worry, the fault is perhaps mine for bringing up marine reptiles.

@Teflon a surprisingly large number of dinosaurs are known to have been feathered, which makes sense since the hot bloods are probably gonna win the debate. A much smaller ancestor of tyrannosaur was definately feathered, the Guanlong wucaii. Read about it a few years back actually; in all likelyhood, even the very big T. Rex was probably fuzzy, with feathers that don't interlock, kinda like down feathers but even fuzzier.

Anduin

Zoids...

Slag was pretty cool, but Grimlock wins it for me.

Kamigoroshi

Only dinosaurs? What about all the other extinct reptiles!? Poor Dimetrodon...

Anyway, I'm really fond of Stygimoloch. Probably due to its sheer cuteness overload.

JuliusBorisov

Stygimoloch

Its skull looks like a dragon's really:



And its name can be roughly translated as "horned demon from the river of hell".

Troodon80

In case it's not already abundantly obvious.

Nonnahswriter

Triceratops!!



Also, LONG-NECKS WERE FREAKING HUGE!!







I like big dino-butts, and I cannot lie~ You other 'saurs can't deny~ When a T-Rex attacks while I'm chewin' on plants he better be prepared to get stomped~

Yes, I just called it a long-neck... I loved the Land Before Time as a kid. Don't judge meeeee! DX

The skeletal dino pictures were taken by me at a dinosaur museum in Thermopolis, WY. That's why the lighting is bad and should feel bad. >_>;;

Dazzu

Zanian said:

The Pterodactylus, the flying spear-like dinosaurs. (Though technically speaking, they're not actually dinosaurs, but more like birds).

Actually, that's a curious contradiction. Ya see, birds ARE dinosaurs, meaning that no matter how able to fly Pterasauria may have been, they're not much like birds other than possessing hollow bones. Even 100 foot behemoths sauropods are more closely related to birds by phylogenetic relation alone.

We can see many similarities, but here's a video to help explain better than I ever could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_htQ8HJ1cA

In related news, the first person who suggests a dimetrodon with 100% seriousness will bring me to rant on why a mammal-like creature is anything but.

Erg

My favourite extinct dinosaurs are the Infinity Engine games. Recently, a clonation attempt has been made, but it wasn't very successful and the clones taste like chicken. Still, most people like chicken, even if I don't, so I guess it wasn't a complete failure either.

elminster

I'm going to go with a Velociraptor, because that is what Dinobot in Beast Wars was supposed to be.

(Plus they were a pretty active element of the first Jurassic Park movie from what I can recall).

Zanian

Dazzu said:

Actually, that's a curious contradiction. Ya see, birds ARE dinosaurs, meaning that no matter how able to fly Pterasauria may have been, they're not much like birds other than possessing hollow bones. Even 100 foot behemoths sauropods are more closely related to birds by phylogenetic relation alone.

Yeah, I should've gone with flying reptile instead of bird. But in my defense, the fact that modern day birds are the closest relatives to ancient dinosaurs (as in the land-roaming ones, seeing as anything that flew or swam weren't actually dinosaurs) we have today, was only very recently confirmed.
I was going off what I knew back when I was a kid, which is a bit embarrassing, seeing as I read some studies about this exact case a week ago.

O_Bruce

Ma favourite is definitely NOT the velociraptor, since thanks to Jurassic Park people have a wrong idea about what they were. Deinonychus, on the other hand was badass in reality....

At least I was until I saw reconstructions with feathers...

DreadKhan

Man, the feathers on dinosaurs is awesome; Quetzalcoatl!

Kamigoroshi

DreadKhan said:

Man, the feathers on dinosaurs is awesome; Quetzalcoatl!

Indeed. You just have to take one look at the Incisivosaurus to fall in love with their feathers. And rodent-like teeth of course.

DreadKhan

Kamigoroshi said:

DreadKhan said:

Man, the feathers on dinosaurs is awesome; Quetzalcoatl!

Indeed. You just have to take one look at the Incisivosaurus to fall in love with their feathers. And rodent-like teeth of course.

"I'm a pretty birdie, no matter what they say..."

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TheElf

I was going to go with triceratops too, although I recently learned there's apparently controversy over whether or not they even existed. http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/evidence-suggests-triceratops-existed-sound-hear-imagination-dying.html
Scientists. First Pluto and now this! >:(

DreadKhan

I find it a bit curious to assume that a bony plate covering the back of the neck would not exist at leaxt in part to prevent very large strong jawed tyrannosaur from breaking the animal's neck. Necks are craxy vulnerable, this is how many cats like to hunt, killing prey by breaking the neck. This might be why smilodons wrre outcompeted, they wouldnt have been as good at this, and this is a very efficient kill strategy, and it certainly fits with the sturdy jaws/necks of big tyrannosaurs. Then again, hyenas have immense jaw and neck strength, and they like scavenging by driving off predators.

Anduin

@Kamigoroshi said:

Only dinosaurs? What about all the other extinct reptiles!? Poor Dimetrodon...

Anyway, I'm really fond of Stygimoloch. Probably due to its sheer cuteness overload.

I want that helmet!