Favorite dinosaur?

[Xen]

Originally posted by stratego
Tricerotops, because Billy was the coolest Power Ranger

everyone knows that the big giant head was the bomb

 

[Mrogreturns]

I have never met a dinosaur but if I did I'd say- "you're late for extinction, quick its that way!"

 

[WillJ]

Uh, the one with all the scales and stuff. Yeah.

(Was never really big on dinosaurs. I'll go with T-Rex. )

Edit: Wait a second, the Utahraptor? Bah, go Alabamaraptor!

 

[Skullbones]

Ankylosaurus! Those guys were cool.

 

[Perfection]

Originally posted by Aphex_Twin
Edit: Where are the ichtiosaurs (fish dinosaurs)? Yes... Paleontology is one of my hobbies

Technically Ichtyosaurs were not dinosaurs, neither were plesiosaurs (seal-like reptiles) nor Pterosaurs (flying/gliding lizards)

 

[Benderino]

Originally posted by Skullbones
Ankylosaurus! Those guys were cool.

Definetly!

These are the best!

 

[Riesstiu IV]

The Ankylosaurus looks kinda like an Armadillo

 

[Dark Ascendant]

Velociraptors are my favorite. They're so lethal looking, with the one large ripping claw on on toe.

 

[delsully]

Donald Rumsfeld and Strom Thurmond, oh crap, he's a fossil, sorry.

 

[Skullbones]

Originally posted by Riesstiu IV
The Ankylosaurus looks kinda like an Armadillo

A little. Only the ankylosaurus has 4.7 inches of armor, has a giant wrecking ball attached to its tail and can shoot laser beams from his eyes! Well, maybe not...

 

[jeriko one]

Styracosaurus.

 

[Shabbaman]

Shabbasaurus

Nessie scores good too, but that's a plesiosaur as well. Probably...

 

[Stapel]

Am I a weirdo, not having a favourite dino?

 

[carlosMM]

yes, stapel, you are.....


cgannon: Tyrannosaurid dionsaurs were most probably opportunistic hunter/scavangers - like lions and hyenas today. Forget the BS about they couldn't run fast - with that leg length they do not need to do more than walk quickly.... btw, ostriches are pretty quick, too, and they easily outrun humans in what for them is a fast walk....


Liopleurodon is not a dinosaur.

 

[carlosMM]

Originally posted by bobgote
whatever happened to Deinonychus?
for years the bigger and scarier cousin of the velociraptor, when Jurassic park came out, he was all but forgotten (actually the velociraptors in JP were based size-wise on deinonychus - velociraptors are considerable smaller and lighter)
Deinonychus as second fiddle? I think not!

if any one dinosaur is my favorite, then Deinonychus antirrhopus OSTROM, 1969

why?

first, it played a HUGE role in getting the dinosaurs out of the swaps and away from the slow-dumb-failed corner.

second, Ostroms paper is a great example of how you should do scientific work - and how you should publish it

third, D. antirrhopus is a vicious, but smart predator - lean and mean


http://dinosauricon.com/genera/deinonychus.html

 

[Stapel]

I'd rather be a weirdo then!

 

[thestonesfan]

T-Rex, I accept no imitations.

Although the sheer size of the some of the largest sauropods must have been astounding. Something bigger than a Blue Whale...walking on land. Amazing.

Anyway...what happened to Deinonychus? Jurassic Park happened. Now everyone refers to Deinonychus' as Velociraptors. The picture posted earlier was a Deinonychus. Velociraptors had a very unique snout and were considerably smaller.

 

[Gothmog]

I just read some new research describing a healed wound purportedly caused by a T-rex. This is important because it implies that the T-rex was indeed a hunter as well as a scavenger, all previous T-rex wounds showed no signs of healing and thus could have been caused during scavenging or hunting.

I've always been partial to the ankylosaurus. Why? Maybe it's the whole 'speak softly but carry a big stick' attitude, but also the cool spiked armor and clubbed tail.

So put me on the ankylosaurus team!

 

[carlosMM]

Originally posted by Gothmog
I just read some new research describing a healed wound purportedly caused by a T-rex. This is important because it implies that the T-rex was indeed a hunter as well as a scavenger, all previous T-rex wounds showed no signs of healing and thus could have been caused during scavenging or hunting.

I have personally seen several hadrosaur specimen with (partially) healed bite wounds stemming from tyrannosaurid teeth, in one case a neural spine was bitten off and others severely damaged, but the animal lived with this for a week or two as the bone had grown an extensive callus (unstructured bone mass - fisrt step in healing).

 

[gozpel]

You forgot one important dino, the Archaeopteryx.

The dino that learnt to fly! A small creature, but instead of been eaten, it took flight

A much more interesting animal than all those teeth-grinding monsters.

Otherwise, raptors are great. Teamworking and quite intelligent, Could've been us if the meteor didn't happen?