After a certain age people stop asking you what your favorite dinosaur is, and I think that’s sad.
My current one’s the Anchiornis, because it’s in the same clade as birds so it’s in their family tree, and it really looks like a prototype of a bird. It had 4 wings for example, but it already looked very birb-y:
(Figured I’d just turn an earlier comment into an actual post because why not)
Ankylosaurus! Tail club, armor plates, what’s not to love?
My daughter is obsessed with dinosaurs right now and this is my go-to favorite, too. Hers was Parasaurolophus but now is back to T-Rex lol.
Came here to say Parasaurolophus. Apparently one well-preserved specimen allowed scientists to take a stab at what it sounded like… I wish I could hear what the soundscape was like 65 million years (or more) ago! https://piped.video/watch?v=QtpSOpUDCb8
!ankmemes@sh.itjust.works could use more content from fellow Ankthusiasts!
I’m boring, and still like Stegosaurus best. Gotta love that Thagomizer.
I just have a soft spot for triceratops.
My favorite cartoon as a kid had a triceratops at a hero. I don’t remember much about it and can’t find it listed online but it might have been from 1970s and I really just remember the triceratops charging at the bad guys, shooting lasers out of his horns
I Think you found it! THANK YOU
The name “Herculoids” seems familiar and the Wikipedia description of Tundro is right on!
However the thumbnails don’t seem to be quite the appearance I remembered, but maybe that’s just poor memory
Woo-hoo, go, Tundro
Edit: maybe my memory is conflating multiple shows but this must be part of it. Holy crap, how did I like this? Watching it now, it was so bad
And how did this pedo episode ever air? “Hey kids, come on into my white windowless van. I’ll take you far from here and make your wishes come true”. This could have used a little stranger danger!” Mania, but predates that
I used to think liking triceratops is dumb when there’s likes of centrosaurus and styracosaurus, but over the years I’ve come to appreciate the classic design.
Spinosaurus!
Gigantic crocodile-faced sail-finned bitey boy supreme.
Patagotitan mayorum. I think that it’s the largest that we know about - around 40m large. Herbivore, I can’t help but think on it as a dino-giraffe: eating leaves, nesting its eggs, not giving too much of a fuck about the small critters nearby.
