Naturally, it’s Ankylosaurus. Just look at this armoured tactical turtle and tell me you do not love this silly little guy!
Just wanting to eat his plants. Wanna gnaw on him? Tough luck, it hurts and you cannot crack that shell. Also, he will fucking break your kneecaps with his built-in hammer while you’re bothering him.
Spirit animal.
This thread is the best booster-pack.
The little tiny raptor things. I don’t remember what they’re called.
Steggy sore ass
Denver, the Last Dinosaur
He’s my friend and a whole lot more!
Stegos all the way. 🥰
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.
Iguanodon. Also known as the Bro-asaurus.
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.
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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.
I do hope the book wasn’t this one…
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???
Camarasaurus, because I found a tooth of one while volunteering on a dig site
I wonder what it tastes like.
how big was it? (the tooth)
Camarasaurus has large teeth for a Sauropod. They are like little shovels. This one was worn down quite a bit, so the Paelo on site said it was likely an older adult:
You can see a skull of one here for reference:
That skull looks like a cockpit. Is it missing pieces? Seems like it would not protect well.
Full skulls from Saurpods are fairly rare, since they are so fragile. They are huge animals though. Camarasaurus was much taller than the largest predator at the time (Allosaurus). They were up to like 70 feet long, and 30ish tons. Allosaurus was 30 feet long (still long), but only 2-3 tons. A full grown Camarasaurus would probably just fine. Young ones would be very vulnerable (but they did grow SUPER fast compared to mammals)
That is truly AWESOME!
Thank you for sharing
It was very exciting. I’m hoping to do more volunteering of that sort again.
Triceratops. The only thing wrong with rhinos are that they have too few horns and not enough armor plating.
There was a monoceratops. Hell, there were ceratopsians who didn’t have horns at all.
Pachycephalosaurus the thick headed one
I bet these things probably had some really cool brain protection similar to how today’s woodpeckers do.
Woodpeckers use their tongue for padding. I’m always in wonder when I hear one go off, sounds like a Warthog laying down fire.
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. :)
Could I interest you in a Micropachycephalosaurus? It’s like a Pachycephalosaurus, but fun sized!
I always appreciate a smaller sized version of my favorites
Therazinosaurus. What even is this thing? Look at this big pokey boi:
What if those giant claws were webbed and it was actually some kind of weird prehistoric duck waddling around everywhere.
Tickle chicken!! This guy is my favorite second only to true dilophosaur which was much larger than the Jurassic park depiction and probably didn’t have the frill or acid spit because it was the largest predator in it’s area.
I grew up with this even weirder reconstruction:
For a second I thought you’re saying that you grew up with this guy lol
Yeah, we had a Spanish class together in 9th grade.
They’re so doofy. I love them.
I mean is this really necessary.
