Your Favourite Dinosaur?

[Eran of Arcadia]

READ THISDinosaurs are dinosaurs.Birds are birds.

See the difference!

Um, dude, I am speaking cladistically. In lay understanding the only dinosaurs are non-avian, but that makes dinosaurs a periphyletic clade. I think.

At any rate, birds are dinosaurs. get over it.

 

[CartesianFart]

At any rate, birds are dinosaurs. get over it.

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[Rossiya]

Your favourite dinosaur?

Thesaurus.

 

[Lotus49]

Hm, do you loath yourself?




(hint: the good old 'reptiles' do not exist in that form anymore. Any recent cladogram can show you that if you want to use it and include crocs, lizards, dinosaurs etc in 'reptiles', you have to push it so far down the tree that it includes the so-called 'therapsids' and their descendants: mammals!)

I can't bring myself to care. And you know good and well what I meant. But please, embark on the I-know-it-all bombastic rant, trying to impress everyone, just for good measure.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

No, as a paleontologist, he has a better idea of this than you. He is in fact correct.

 

[Lotus49]

No, as a paleontologist, he has a better idea of this than you. He is in fact correct.

So I'm a dinosaur, then. I learn so much from you guys. Can't thank you enough. But you surely can't be done... add at least one more condescending, pompous remark, please. Only then will my CFC experience for the evening be complete as I have come to expect.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Okay:

You can't seem to tell the difference between reptiles and dinosaurs. One being a subset of the other.

Seriously, I knew what you meant by "reptile" - you were using the common rather than the technical term.

 

[Lotus49]

Okay:

You can't seem to tell the difference between reptiles and dinosaurs. One being a subset of the other.

"I do not have a favorite ancient lizzard-looking beast (regardless of which technicality you speculate is the correct method to classify them). I am in fact, glad they are gone from this planet."

Now, with that simple sentiment expressed, and once again emphasizing that I care not for the details of possible recent developments in the paleontological field, I now ask you, Mr. traffic cop, to lift the stop sign, and let me proceed on my merry not-liking-dinosaur way. Thank you and goodnight.

You just can't say anything - without being assailed. That's the (my, at least) definition of a hostile environment.

 

[Quintillus]

Stegosaurus.

Triceratops and brontosaurus were also amongst my favorites.

 

[Kozmos]

Styracosaurus

 

[Sidhe]

Um, dude, I am speaking cladistically. In lay understanding the only dinosaurs are non-avian, but that makes dinosaurs a periphyletic clade. I think.

At any rate, birds are dinosaurs. get over it.

Birds are dinosaurs in the same way humans are monkeys, ie we're related to the same original species, but cousins is probably a good approximation. Least that's how I understood it.

 

[b etor]

triceratops

 

[Firstlady]

triceratops

Haha, like Sarah from the Land Before Time.

 

[b etor]

CERA! silly

 

[Firstlady]

CERA! silly

You're right!

 

[BCLG100]

Come on, admit it, everyone has, or at least had, a favourite dinosaur.

Mine, and I imagine many others will agree, was Tyrannosaurus-Rex. I did have a short fling with Velociraptors until I realised Spielburg had lied to me again and they were more 'giant turkey' than 'intelligent hunters'.

So what was it and why? OH, and pictures would be great for those without the knowledge to know exactly which dinosaur you're talking about and the time to research

I've not listed the dinosaurs because I know how people love to how off their knowledge on here and no matter how many dinosaurs I list there will be some smart arse saying "you missed my favourite, the Heptasteornis"

I often see them still wandering around, they hail from the area just North of Manchester (not north enough to be cumbria mind) many indeed try and claim they are from Manchester.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Thesaurus.

Touche

So I'm a dinosaur, then. I learn so much from you guys. Can't thank you enough. But you surely can't be done... add at least one more condescending, pompous remark, please. Only then will my CFC experience for the evening be complete as I have come to expect.

Wouldn't "Only then will my CFC experience for the evening be as complete as I have come to expect." be better sentence structure?

 

[Lotus49]

Touche

Wouldn't "Only then will my CFC experience for the evening be as complete as I have come to expect." be better sentence structure?

It might be, but when you're assaulting the keyboard at 60-80 wpm, it's not literature. Plenty of words sometimes jump in there, just out of habit. The hands merely incorporate muscle-memory, as they try their best to keep up with the mind.

P.S. I don't have such a boring job, as one that involves me looking at rocks all the time. (another jab - a the paleont.... *cough* forget it)

 

[Swedishguy]

Maiasaurus!

I wrote some stuff about that little fella in third grade.