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[benny@kirche.social]

@ErickaSimone I pick Diplodocus

[jaystephens@mastodon.social]

@ErickaSimone
DIPLODOCUS

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@ErickaSimone I don't have a favorite dinosaur, but I have a least favorite one. A triceratops broke my ankle, true story

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@ErickaSimone oh uh

apatasaurus

it's not on that list, but for a good reason. see, it was called brontosaurus when we were very young, and we initially built some attachment to that name

but then it was discovered that the original person to name it had been sloppy about claiming it was a separate species when it wasn't, so it turned out brontosaurus had never existed

we re-attached our feelings appropriately ...

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@ErickaSimone ... about ten years after that, someone looked even deeper and determined there still IS a separate but related species, which wound up getting the name brontosaurus

please forgive the lack of detail in this explanation, we were overly reliant on popular-science press outlets in childhood, we hadn't learned to acquire research papers yet

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@ErickaSimone anyway we didn't feel like adjusting our feelings a second time - renaming plushies doesn't feel good, even in the name of scientific accuracy. so our favorite is still apatasaurus

it would be another 30 years after that before we figured out we were autistic, somehow

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@ErickaSimone thank you. this was indeed a fun break from adulting.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@ricci @ErickaSimone that's quite impressive

[softspeak@defcon.social]

@ErickaSimone
Carnotarus, the Dinosaur planet special with the tiny blue arms waving was my fav.

[mk30@tilde.zone]

@ErickaSimone @dave I've always been a stegosaurus person.

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@ErickaSimone not on there, but Triceratops. Thanks, went to read the Wikipedia article. I love them so much, they're such little cuties

[jakehamilton@hachyderm.io]

@ErickaSimone Andesaurus is very good!

[daimon_erre@mastodon.uno]

@ErickaSimone the Archaeopteryx is missing 🪶

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@ireneista @ErickaSimone seconded

[beeftacos@famichiki.jp]

@ErickaSimone I think I have to agree with Moon Tobin, from the TV show "The Great North":

Allosaurus -- carnivorous theropod, strong muscular tail, a predator's predator

[chris_evelyn@fedi.chris-evelyn.de]

@ErickaSimone T-Rex. 🦖

Because on one hand it‘s a fearsome predator but on the other hand it‘s hilarious imagining it trying to do everyday tasks with its tiny arms.

[hallvors@oslo.town]

@ricci so, will you tell us the rest of this story..? Pretty please? @ErickaSimone

[julianmaiz@mastodon.social]

@ErickaSimone

I'm so basic for this but #Velociraptor. It feels the most rideable into battle.

[catdad@ohai.social]

@ErickaSimone I have a theory about the brontosaurus. - Miss Ann Elk, probably.

[guillotine_jones@beige.party]

@ralann @ErickaSimone
Nevertheless, Robert, pterodactyls are just as extinct as dinosaurs, even if they were reptiles, if I am not mistaken -- which I often am.