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[gwentlarry@mastodon.social]

@ErickaSimone

Strictly, pterodactyls and all other pterosaurs aren't dinosaurs but flying reptiles …

Currently, I rather like the Spinosaurs:

Spinosauridae - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

most of which have a sail on their back, a head crest and impressive teeth.

[murdoc@autistics.life]

@julianmaiz @ErickaSimone
I like how sleek, intelligent, and sociable they are. That why I enjoyed Blue so much, especially when she was demonstrating empathy.

I also like mamenchisaurs. That neck is really something. I wonder if it's related somehow to me liking giraffes?

[tattie@eldritch.cafe]

@ErickaSimone of those on the diagram, Ankylosaurus. But I also love Pachycephalosaurus.

...I like dinosaurs that go bonk

[pluvialitterarum@openbiblio.social]

@ErickaSimone Thank you for posting this, it feels sooo good to think about dinosaurs for a bit. Ankylosaurus is my number one ️

[erickasimone@mastodon.social]

Oh you guys got DISTRACTED distracted. loooool.

[erickasimone@mastodon.social]

@sollat hahah. What a boss way to die.

[erickasimone@mastodon.social]

@steggy CLEARLY.

[erickasimone@mastodon.social]

@mivox @GhostOnTheHalfShell wait. This happened? lol.

[erickasimone@mastodon.social]

@flipper @glasspusher @pseudonymsupreme wow just noticed the left the legend out. Apologies. lol.

[vojtechhorky@social.coop]

@ErickaSimone I’ll have to go with the diplodocus, my favourite episode on Walking with Dinosaurs back in the day.

[julianmaiz@mastodon.social]

@murdoc @ErickaSimone

Do you like the Brachiosaurus and the Brontosaurus as well? On account of their giraffe-like shapes?

[mivox@mivox.net]

@ErickaSimone @GhostOnTheHalfShell I am EXTREMELY disappointed to report that when I happily ran off to find a citation, I found exactly the opposite…

Just a moment...

(www.smithsonianmag.com)

[yewa@troet.cafe]

@ErickaSimone

Styracosaurus.

But I don't know anything about dinosaurs. It just looks good to me.

[konosocio@mastodon.online]

@mivox @ErickaSimone @GhostOnTheHalfShell i feel your grief

[schafstelze@don.linxx.net]

@ErickaSimone Ankylo but with extra Stego spikes at the tail

[fehlfarbe@dresden.network]

@ErickaSimone
CC @hollma @Azetbur 🦕🦖

[murdoc@autistics.life]

@julianmaiz @ErickaSimone
Brachiosaur yeah, brontosaur, it depends on the depiction of it. But with mamenchisaurus, it's neck just seems impossibly long (well some of them anyway).

[lotharmucki@norden.social]

@ErickaSimone Brachiosaurus, my dude*ttes!

[azetbur@dresden.network]

@ErickaSimone paradaurolophus is one of the best

[dpflug@hachyderm.io]

@gnoll110
There was a convincing 2015 paper arguing otherwise and it's now considered a whole genus of 'saurs.
@ErickaSimone