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.
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.
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.
Ankylosaurus is a strong contender. Really strong contender. But stegosaurus is still MVP.
Chicken. It tastes good.
This thread is the best booster-pack.
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.
Denver, the Last Dinosaur
He’s my friend and a whole lot more!
Steggy sore ass
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.
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.
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.
I do hope the book wasn’t this one…
Therazinosaurus. What even is this thing? Look at this big pokey boi:
Looks like a herbivore who discovered a love for really fresh ham.
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.