Do you have a favourite dinosaur?

[vecna00]

I change my answer, it's Laser Raptors!

 

[niklinna]

For those wondering about the Viking Age laser raptors:

 

[BookTenTiger]

I took a college class on paleontology, and the professor did two really cool things.

First she blew into a replica parasaurolophus skull and played it like a wind instrument.

And secondly she cracked a bullwhip so we knew the sound of a diplodocus tail (evidenced by scar tissue, they believe they could move the end of their tail and crack it like a bullwhip, breaking the sound barrier)

EDIT: And Morrus, I'm sorry to say she called stegosauruses "prehistoric pigs" because they were basically giant sides of meat for predators to enjoy, despite the thagomizers.

 

[Lidgar]

Dimetrodons. Yeah, I know they came 40 million years before actual dinosaurs, but they had a freaking neural spine sail. I mean, who wouldn’t want one of those?

 

[BookTenTiger]

Dimetrodons. Yeah, I know they came 40 million years before actual dinosaurs, but they had a freaking neural spine sail. I mean, who wouldn’t want one of those?

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Makes me think about Spinosaurus, and now, as they've discovered more fossils, it's changed from a "T-Rex with a sail" to "a big dangerous duck."

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I'm partial to the Argentinosaurus, but my personal favorite is probably the Pachycephalosaurus.

 

[niklinna]

Dimetrodons. Yeah, I know they came 40 million years before actual dinosaurs, but they had a freaking neural spine sail. I mean, who wouldn’t want one of those?

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Spinosaurus had that too, but frankly it was kinda dorky looking. In a totally terrifying way, of course, but still.

Edit: Scooped!

 

[BookTenTiger]

If we expand it to extinct prehistoric mammals there are a lot of cool creatures too. I mean, it's hard to not love the Giant Ground Sloth, which had enormous claws and bone chainmail embedded in its skin!

 

[Tonguez]

Dimetrodons. Yeah, I know they came 40 million years before actual dinosaurs, but they had a freaking neural spine sail. I mean, who wouldn’t want one of those?

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And closer to mammals than they are to dinosaurs

Ive theorised that Dragons are synapisids descended from double finned Pelycosaurs

 

[niklinna]

If we expand it to extinct prehistoric mammals there are a lot of cool creatures too. I mean, it's hard to not love the Giant Ground Sloth, which had enormous claws and bone chainmail embedded in its skin!

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And without them we might not have avocados....