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  • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    I just want to say that anyone who picks pterodactyl, ichthyosaurus, or mosasaurus as their favourite dinosaurs is wrong because none of those are dinosaurs.

    Having said that, I like triceratops, which isn’t on the list for some reason. I guess I’ll pick styracosaurus since it’s similar.

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      I haven’t checked in a while but I THOUGHT it was believed triceratops is now just a juvenile other dinosaur

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        That was news to me. The wiki for Torosaurus is a deep rabbit hole, and since fossilization is rare and we have to go with what little we can find, this will probably be a long debate either way.

        With that being said, whatever the name, three horn dino is best dino! And weird that the meme wouldn’t have one on there, since it has always been a well known dinosaur in movies and toys.

      • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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        I know it’s been debated back and forth with a lot of the ceratopsian dinosaurs. Torosaurus was the one they think/thought is the adult version of a triceratops. I’m not sure where the consensus stands now though.

        • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Consensus is probably not.

          • We don’t have transition forms
          • We probably have young Torosaurs (which are not Triceratops)
          • Holes in the skull would have to form atypically late for ceratopsidae
          • some other stuff I forgot
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        deleted by creator

    • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      My favorite dinosaur is Plesiosaurus.

      What are you gonna do about it? >:)

  • Mossy Feathers (She/Her)@pawb.social
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    “raptor”

    There’s more than one kind of raptor, buddy. Also why doesn’t the raptor have feathers? If you’re gonna mush all the raptors together into a single species, at least draw the feathers. This is offensive to theropods around the world as it turns us into a homogeneous, featherless caricature.

    • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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      Also why are pterodactyls even here? They’re pterosaurs, not dinosaurs

      • marcos@lemmy.world
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        The same for the aquatic reptiles.

        Also, bring my giganantossaurus!

        • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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          Same here! Giganotosaurus and Argentinosaurus are the ones I would have picked

      • Optional@lemmy.world
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        Oh here we go - bring in the pterosaur shills!1!

        ;)

        • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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          There are dozens of us! Dozens!

    • credo@lemmy.world
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      I see you have a bit of spitfire left over. Please sit in this cubicle over here and adult for just a little while longer.

  • audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I think “ankylosaurus” is misspelled. The only reason I know that is because it has always been my favorite dinosaur.

    • LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee
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      “Iguanadon” (my favourite) and “Coelophysis” are also mispelled

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        👍👍 Two thumbs up for iguanodon.

    • halyk.the.red@lemmy.ml
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      Same, and I was getting concerned when I got halfway down the list and I didn’t see it yet. I’ve always liked the pterodactyl as well, because it’s basically the closest we’ll get to a wyvern.

      • TheControlled@lemmy.world
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        Pterodactyl is also not a dinosaur but this list is just for the lols anyway 😄

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      Represent!

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    No Triceratops? Yeah, I gonna need to speak to a manager on this one…

    • NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world
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      We only have tricera-bottoms here.

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    I’ll pick the Stegosaurus… but only because the Triceratops is conspicuously absent from this chart.

    (Secret fighter menu?)

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    3 of those aren’t dinosaurs, but I would go with the mosasaur. Giant sea snake that ruled the oceans.

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      If Ark is anything to go by, the mosasaur is the most powerful of them all.

  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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    Stegosaurus!

    • Pohl@lemmy.world
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      My people are here!

    • deus@lemmy.world
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      Love the thagomizers.

      • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
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        They’re my second favorite thing that pokes out from a stegosaurus!

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      Wh00t wh00t

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    Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.

    Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.

    For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.

    It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.

    The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.

    So to sum up, we have a heavily built, seemingly aquactic crocodile like dinosaur with teeth and jaws built for active hunting. But wouldnt be that fast on land (heavy bones and giant spines) and cant swim like a croc or gator(no muscles for that.) And it doesn’t have a long neck like a heron or pleisiosaur.

    Best of all, the most complete skeleton of spinosaurus was destroyed in WW2, so we don’t even have that to work from.

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    Ankilosaurus.

    Because nothing says antisocial quite like bony back armor and a big ass hammer.

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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      One of us! One of us!

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    Stegosaurus has spikes on its back

    to keep away predators trying to attack.

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      Stegosaurus does have the Thagomizer, so named by The Far Side comics, and officially given that name because scientists didnt give it a name before that.

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      He protecc

      He attacc

      He got spikes on his bacc

      (Plus I bet he talks like Eeyore)

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      Stegosaurus is the coolest one imo

  • 🇦🇺𝕄𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕝𝕖@lemm.ee
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    Where arw my raptor feathers. They are objectively the coolest dinosaur!

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    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: parasaurolophus is the choice dino

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    Where the HELL is my triceratops?

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    Dinosaur Jr

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    Carnotaurus, because it’s like a T-Rex’s edgier cousin.

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      *hornier

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      Allosaurus for me

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