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  • What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?

    I've always like tyrannosaurs, ever since I was very, very young. I was impressed, I suppose, by their sheer size and power. And now they're trying to make us believe that Tyrannosaurus Rex was a scavenger. Please!
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    i like the birds, yep, the birds are my favorite dinosaur.
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    • #3
      I like the Diplodocus.
      They are big, peaceful, but don't get bullied around too much by scavengers.
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      • #4
        Anklyosaurus with the turtle shell and the clubbed tail. That must've been one bada$$ dinosaur

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        • #5
          Parasaurolop(h?)us of the duck-billed kind used to be my favourite.
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            I like this one too
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            • #7
              Is that a tyrannosaur?
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              • #8
                I'd probably say that my favourite dinosaur is the velociraptor. Small, fast, near impossible for its prey to escape.
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                • #9
                  I used to like the Triceratops since it could often defeat Tyrannosaurs and they were only attacked when those big carnivores were really hungry.
                  Yet somewhere I recently read that those long horns they had were no weapons instead they were used to attract mates, in this case Triceratops would not be all that cool anymore.

                  BTW many Anklyosaurus skeletons have been found laying upside down, which suggests that bigger dinosaurs could sometimes turn them over and eat them then when they were pretty much defenseless.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by chronocrator
                    I used to like the Triceratops since it could often defeat Tyrannosaurs and they were only attacked when those big carnivores were really hungry.
                    Yet somewhere I recently read that those long horns they had were no weapons instead they were used to attract mates, in this case Triceratops would not be all that cool anymore.

                    BTW many Anklyosaurus skeletons have been found laying upside down, which suggests that bigger dinosaurs could sometimes turn them over and eat them then when they were pretty much defenseless.
                    Ceratopsians are pretty cool. The one I like best (I can't remember its name) is smaller than the Triceratops and has spikes on the top of its head shield.

                    Do you notice that they seem now to want to downplay the degree to which dinosaurs used their attributes for hunting and fighting? Tyrannosaurs are now scavengers, Velociraptors are not efficient hunters but thinking animals, Triceratops uses its horns for "peaceful" purposes.

                    Just the fact that Ankylosaurus skeletons have been found on their backs doesn't automatically imply that they were turned that way by predators, but I'm sure that did happen since so much of their weight would have been on their back like a modern turtle.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Mr. President
                      Is that a tyrannosaur?
                      Yep, tyrannosaurus rex.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Mr. President
                        Ceratopsians are pretty cool. The one I like best (I can't remember its name) is smaller than the Triceratops and has spikes on the top of its head shield.
                        I believe you are talking about the styracosaurus.

                        Do you notice that they seem now to want to downplay the degree to which dinosaurs used their attributes for hunting and fighting? Tyrannosaurs are now scavengers, Velociraptors are not efficient hunters but thinking animals, Triceratops uses its horns for "peaceful" purposes.
                        Maybe it isn't a downplay but rather actual scientific research. Before, scientits who found a horn on a dinosaur might just have assumed that it is for fighting and the dino with the biggest, sharpest teeth was the greatest hunter of course.
                        I still think dinosaurs are cool, though.

                        edit: found the picture here: http://taggart.glg.msu.edu/isb200/dino.htm
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                        • #13
                          I always liked the Dionycus. I don't know why.
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                          • #14
                            My father-in-law really likes dinosaurs.
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                            • #15
                              Oh my! Did he make that!

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