Author Topic: Favorite Dinosaur? (Read 3441 times)

mellestad · « **on:** April 29, 2010, 07:54:07 PM »

I love dinosaurs and associated megafauna. Today I was browsing my daily links and I found this guy, he's my favorite for this week. Crazy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Panochthus_frenzelianus.jpg

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2010, 08:00:45 PM »

The armadillo from hell.

Put a saddle on that bad boy.

Battle Monkey of Zardoz · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2010, 08:02:06 PM »

T Rex. With the Stegosaurus and Triceratops a close 2nd

Boomhauer · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2010, 08:09:36 PM »

Couldn't tell you what's my fav dinosaur. I used to visit all the traveling Dinosaur museums and such as a kid, lots of fun.

kgbsquirrel · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2010, 08:28:57 PM »

LOL. The 'dillo of doom! Imagine if a semi-truck tried to run that thing over.

Mabs2 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2010, 08:35:18 PM »

My favorite dinosaur is whichever one tastes best.
That's the main reason I want modern science to bring them back.
Holy crap I bet some of them taste great.
bbq sauce, deep fried, oven baked.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2010, 09:12:15 PM »

Quote from: mellestad on April 29, 2010, 07:54:07 PM

Favorite Dinosaur?

Jocassee · « **Reply #7 on:** April 29, 2010, 09:37:02 PM »

Quote from: Avenger29 on April 29, 2010, 08:09:36 PM

Couldn't tell you what's my fav dinosaur. I used to visit all the traveling Dinosaur museums and such as a kid, lots of fun.

T-Rex clearly needs a shoulder rig.

Jim147 · « **Reply #8 on:** April 29, 2010, 11:44:40 PM »

Quote from: Straight on April 29, 2010, 08:35:18 PM

My favorite dinosaur is whichever one tastes best.
That's the main reason I want modern science to bring them back.
Holy crap I bet some of them taste great.
bbq sauce, deep fried, oven baked.

What does it matter? They all just taste like chicken.

jim

Mabs2 · « **Reply #9 on:** April 29, 2010, 11:49:03 PM »

Quote from: Jim147 on April 29, 2010, 11:44:40 PM

What does it matter? They all just taste like chicken.

jim

So? Chicken is delicious.

Jim147 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 29, 2010, 11:55:04 PM »

Then you should get some chickens and feed them eggs and bacon for every meal to see how big they get.

jim

crt360 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2010, 03:42:36 AM »

That must be the armadillo from the old Lone Star ads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub2lgjWxsRY

Ron · « **Reply #12 on:** April 30, 2010, 08:07:37 AM »

Back before the first Jurassic Park movie came out, I read the book. The first book is actually pretty darn good.

From that point on Velociraptors became my favorite dinosaur. Before that it was T-Rex, although the Woolly Mammoth was a close second in deference to the coming ice age. As a child I was obsessed with dinosaurs. I had books about them, whole sets of plastic dinosaurs, models and I even made a paper mache T-Rex in grade school.

Anyone remember the rice cereal back in the 70's that had plastic dino's in every box?

AJ Dual · « **Reply #13 on:** April 30, 2010, 08:37:31 AM »

The main problem with both the book and the movie is that the Velociraptors are really only about the size of a large turkey.

At least in the size of any fossils that have been found to date.

Ron · « **Reply #14 on:** April 30, 2010, 08:49:27 AM »

Quote from: AJ Dual on April 30, 2010, 08:37:31 AM

The main problem with both the book and the movie is that the Velociraptors are really only about the size of a large turkey.

At least in the size of any fossils that have been found to date.

Crichton took the liberty of combining attributes of the raptors (Dromaeosauridae) with some creative license into his own raptors for the book and movies. I think the Utah Raptor was what he used to justify the size discrepancy.

Cromlech · « **Reply #15 on:** April 30, 2010, 09:44:01 AM »

Clever Girl...

Tuco · « **Reply #16 on:** April 30, 2010, 10:02:18 AM »

Triceratops

AZRedhawk44 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 30, 2010, 10:23:16 AM »

Washasaurus Rex.

roo_ster · « **Reply #18 on:** April 30, 2010, 12:34:44 PM »

Quote from: Straight on April 29, 2010, 08:35:18 PM

My favorite dinosaur is whichever one tastes best.
That's the main reason I want modern science to bring them back.
Holy crap I bet some of them taste great.
bbq sauce, deep fried, oven baked.

That's beautiful, man. <sniff, sniff>

I think a Jurassic Park-like island set up as a hunting preserve to subsidize the protection of endangered species would be the coolest thing since sliced bread.

Quote from: mellestad on April 29, 2010, 07:54:07 PM

Feakasaurus Maximus?

Hemispherasaurus?

My favorite dinosaur?
The Argentinosaurus I saw at the Atlanta Fernbank museum.

My favorite non-dino megafauna?

Carnivorous would have to be Ursus maritimus tyrannus

Ursus maritimus tyrannus roughly translates from the latin as, "Holy crap, that's a big honkin' bear!"

Herbivorous would have to be the Megatherium giant sloth, for absurdity's sake:

~10,000 lbs is a whole lotta sloth. Even the laziest folks I have met can match that! (http://www.instantrimshot.com/)

mellestad · « **Reply #19 on:** April 30, 2010, 01:03:33 PM »

My favorite living example of megafauna:

mellestad · « **Reply #20 on:** April 30, 2010, 01:12:35 PM »

Although you have to admit, whatever critter these belonged to would have been impressive as all get out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon

I got to see some recreated Jaws in an aquarium once, very neat, teeth the size of daggers.

Scout26 · « **Reply #21 on:** April 30, 2010, 05:13:45 PM »

Quote from: Ron on April 30, 2010, 08:07:37 AM

As a child I was obsessed with dinosaurs. I had books about them, whole sets of plastic dinosaurs, models and I even made a paper mache T-Rex in grade school.

I didn't make the Paper Mache ones, but yep, from the time I was about 8 until 11 or 12, Dinosaurs were the bomb.

Now my son (age 9) is a dino freak. Mrs Scout doesn't understand his obession with them. But I do. Get to do it all over again......

Tallpine · « **Reply #22 on:** April 30, 2010, 08:08:11 PM »

A thesaurus, which is just another word for dinosaur.

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #23 on:** April 30, 2010, 10:53:50 PM »

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #24 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:07:33 PM »

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Author Topic: Favorite Dinosaur? (Read 3441 times)