"Favourite Dinosaur" Topic

I'll open with one that's not technically a dinosaur:

Pterodactyl

Ankylosaurus, 1st model i ever built was a pyro purple one.

Triceratops. When we visited Dinosaur National Monument in Utah, we drove on to Dinosaur, Colorado for lunch, and found they had named their streets after different dinosaurs. So, I have a photo of me by the Triceratops Street sign.

Grelber

T-Rex. Duh!

Dino

Yeah, Triceratops. Looks like it would be a cool ride, and it wouldn't be trying to eat you.

Styracosaurus.

Yeah, T-Rex is my spirit animal

+1 OC

Stegosaurus. Thagomizer is the fifth ace.

So many iconic ones from my youth spending too much time with the How and Why Wonder Book of Dinosaurs. In no particular order:

- Brontosaurus. You can't have a "Brontosaurus Burger" without a Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus be damned.

- Tyranosaurus Rex. Mayhem personified.

- Allosaurus. Almost as evocotive as T-Rex but with limbs.

- Tricerotops. Don't mess with me, I've got three nasty
horns and I know how to use them. Plus great frontal armor.

- Ankylosaurus. Slow and well armored everywhere. Probably with a bad attitude.

Triceratops – takes no guff from nobody

I like them all but T Rex and Stegosaurus top my list.
Paul

I was going to say triceratops, but everyone else did. I could say pentaceratops to raise the stakes, but I don't like them as well.

Triceratops were probably pretty smart, stayed in groups, who doesn't like aggressive herbivores like rhinos?

Stegosaurus is also very cool, but harder to put a howdah on.

I do want to model some triceratops with howdahs of various kinds in an army some day. I should probably put them in all the armies: ACE, AWI, WW2, they fit everywhere.

Triceratops. Also other ceratopsians.

SWMBO.

I have been very disappointed with artificial tissue growth for food. I really want a brontoburger!

A fave from my childhood …

And a recent one …

But … Spinosauraus for the win!

Dinosaur: Triceratops.
However, my favorite Mesozoic critter, which is also one that I study is the late Cretaceous fish Enchodus and its relatives.

Pachycephalosaurus, as my receding hairline has robbed me of my cossack topknot.

I do like me some mosasaurs for dino-adjacent terror.

Doug

panzerCDR, I had that book! And YES, Brontosaurus forever!

Dinosaurs are all wonderful. I never really had a single favorite, but loved them all. I realized later in life that the were representing different moods for me.

Stegosaurus all the way!

cfielitz, I had to look it up, which you could have saved me the effort with "saber-toothed herring". ;->=

As for Brontosaurus, relax. I hear rumors the evidence of connection to the Mortimer Snerd of sauropods is getting shaky.

Doug

Can't beat a pack of velociraprors!!

Argentinosaurus… the biggest predator on earth…

Armand

Changes day by day! But for now, I'm picking the noble Parasaurolophus. The big honker, the Piper's pal!!

Titanasaurus! or what ever was the biggest Dino.

Just imagine sitting on it's head 5 stories up!

I never have "favorites", just occasional infatuations. I still react to new discoveries and research into prehistoric animals with the same excitement I had as a grade school child. I descended into the Internet rabbit hole for about 3 hours last week learning about dinofelis (not a dinosaur, but thankfully extinct).

I'll open with one that's not technically a dinosaur:

Pterodactyl

The giant flying reptiles always get my attention.

Years ago, these pictures sent me on a reading binge for a fortnight: