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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Where's my ankylosaurus gang at?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Me! Always thought that club was badass

[–] Klear 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Another community missing (?) from lemmy - /r/ankmemes.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yo, me too! Though as a kid I thought it was anklyosaurus, and somehow related to ankles.

Unless we're allowed to include extant dinosaur species. In which case the bush stone-curlew is my fav. ❤️ those adorable screemy bois.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Definitely ankle related. Think how it can shatter ankles with that tail.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

When my wife drives and we come to a complete stop, if the car next to me has their window down I usually try to ask them their favorite dinosaur. So far only one person has gotten really mad at me, most people just get confused.

[–] fkn 12 points 2 years ago

How dare you bother me in public! /s

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Triceratops was always my fav.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's dozens of us (if you count lurkers)

[–] TheGiantKorean 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm a stegosaurus man myself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Absolutely. I don't know what it is about them but yeah, stegosaurus are cool.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Feathered T-Rex. The theory is that those useless little arms are actually supposed to be wings makes more sense. Do they fly? No, and neither do ostriches. Probably glide tho.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (11 children)

With wings that tiny I doubt a T-Rex was doing much gliding either, considering its size.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe falling with style? No, probably not that either.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

They Naruto run after you. Thats gotta be it lol

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[–] fkn 5 points 2 years ago

I like the idea that their feather ratio would be more like a chicken or a turkey... and they would just be there absolutely chonky birds...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

chickens are definitely my favourite dinosaur, tastiest one plus they lay big eggs.

[–] Klear 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Found the guy who never ate fried microraptor wings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

yet to find it in local stores sadly, and i'm unwilling to order food online.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brontosaurus. Just a gigantic chill dude.

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[–] Adalast 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ankylosaurus, give me a living tank with a club for a tail that could likely damage a real tank.

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[–] Scarronline 12 points 2 years ago

Triceratops people hold strong!

[–] ZombieMantis 12 points 2 years ago

Archaeopteryx

It is to our understanding of dinosaur & avian evolution what Lucy is to our understanding of human evolution. Also it looks cool.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Diplodocus, because I love the name

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ravens.

Hey, I'm technically more correct than everyone who chose dimetrodon, pterosaurs, plesiosauroidea, or crocodilians.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Corvids are particularly awesome.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I always like pterodactyls, specifically the classic big lizard ones. I do have a tiny Dimetrodon in my pc case though that I got out of a crane machine.

[–] reattach 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs, FYI: they're pterosaurs. It doesn't matter in the least, but I have a 5-year-old so I'm learning a lot about prehistoric reptiles.

[–] Sigh_Bafanada 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nor is dimetrodon haha. They're all excellent though

[–] Pipoca 7 points 2 years ago

There's two big groups of four-limbed vertebrates: amphibians (like frogs), and amniotes (like us and birds). Amniotes developed into two groups: synapsids (mammals) and saurapsids (lizards, birds, turtles, etc.).

Dimetrodon was a synapsid that ruled the world tens of millions of years before the first dinosaurs evolved.

That makes it really cool, actually, precisely because it isn't a dinosaur. Dimetrodon is to us as brotosaurus is to chickens: a really interesting great great etc uncle.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Growing up is learning your favorite dinosaur isn't actually a dinosaur. (mine was pterodactyl)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Growing up is learning your favorite bird is a dinosaur

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I would genuinely rather hear what everyone's favorite dinosaur is, than who their favorite sports team is. Yet, society thinks I should care whole lot about the latter...

[–] UnhingedFridge 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine are crows and pigeons. Those count, right?

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[–] corodius 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Deinonychus, definitely :)

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[–] squeezeyerbawdy 7 points 2 years ago

As long as we are using looser definitions mine are Pleisosaurus for an aquatic, Pterodactyl for air and Brachiosaurus for land.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Ankylosaurus peeps, stand the fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Brachiosaurus because they look as some kind of fictional creature.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Legit crying that no one has said spinosaurus yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Pterodactyl. And now I have the dinosaur train theme stuck in my head. 🦖

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