Today, matthew, I'm going to be asking a question...

[davywavy]

So, everyone. What is your favourite dinosaur? And why?

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[twicedead.livejournal.com]

I like Utahraptor... it's the Mormon dinosaur...

It's also a larger version of the veloceraptor... indeed V-raptors were much smaller than in the Jurassic Park movies... the ones in the movies are clower to Utahraptors.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes; apparently they decided to make the Velociraptors bigger for the film, and then the Utahraptor was discovered during filming and they thought "Woohoo!"

[onyxtears.livejournal.com]

They have a skeleton of one in a museum in oxford, is very cool.

[weejock.livejournal.com]

T-Rex. No wait Allosaurus or the Stegasaurus or maybe Triceratops.
I love them all.
*goes to happy childhood place*

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

For some reason when I was little my favourite dinosaur was the dimetrodon. I had a plastic one I played with in the bath.

[weejock.livejournal.com]

The sailed one? Very cool, although you of course know that the Dimetrodon is not technically a Dinosaur but is in fact classified as a Pelycosaur.

I googled...

[ex-boog351.livejournal.com]

When I was a wee lad I had a book of Dinosaurs, it was quite informative, but also gave an insight into how dinosaurs lived. It had a number of illustrations , one of which was a fight between a Triceratops and a Tyranosauras Rex. In the story of the fight, the T-Rex attacked the Triceratops, and managed to injure it, but was gored and had to retreat to lick his wounds (though presumably very carefully). As an aside it mentioned that this was quite unusual - as the Triceratops usually got eaten for lunch. So I always liked that particular Triceratops as he mean and horny and biffed a Tyranosauras Rex - something it could tell the little ones about, anyway.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

And the little ones wouldn't have believed it either: "Eeeh, there goes grandad, telling his 'I fought a T-Rex' story again..."

Actually my big book of dinosaurs had a similar scene in it too. I wonder if a triceratops smacking a T-Rex is part and parcel of the dinosaur-education experience? They had the original silent "Lost World" on at VB-Movie when I was there last week, but in that the Triceratops gets eaten. What a swizz, I say.

[dmwcarol.livejournal.com]

I like Polacanthus, mostly because when I was studying geology at school we actually found a bit of one.

But also, it would look really cute wearing a Jester's hat.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Is that one of the duck-billed ones?

[crocodilewings.livejournal.com]

The deinonychus, because if the inherent engineering problems involved were solved, were someone to make a giant robot deinonychus, it would be so much more immensely cool than all the other giant robot dinosaurs.

Its bone structure and other anatomical markers were also one of the intrumental factors in favour of the proposal that dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Oh, and it's about the size of the velociraptors in Jurassic Park, and it has the BigBigInsideToe as well, but it's just cooler.

This has actually been my favourite dinosaur since I was about nine years old.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Ah, the 'terrible claw'. If you say it in Englsih, it sounds like a cartoon villain.

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Err, gosh. Do I have to pick a favourite? I love them all!

Favourite to see killing things on TV: Deinonychus
Most aesthetically pleasing (or in this case odd looking): Stegosaurus
Dinosaur I'd most like to take on a date (though not if I'm picking up the restaurant bill): Diplodocus

Oh, and I had a book where a T-Rex attacked a Triceratops and retired wounded, too. Perhaps we all had the same book?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Actually I loved Diplodoci muchly when i was small - I always thought that the Brontosaurus was unfairly promoted over it's cousin.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

My favourite dinosaur?

Why, you, of course.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Just because most people would prefer me extinct...

[jonnyargles.livejournal.com]

Denver, the last dinosaur.

He's my friend and a whole lot more.

(Although nothing sexual - just cuddling)

(All right, maybe a bit of petting, but just that once, and I was drunk)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You disturb me, argles.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

Barney, he's purple and dances...
he also irritates the fuck out of Gav :p

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I live you, you love me, we're a happy fam-i-ly....

[kikayume.livejournal.com]

My favorite was the Archaeopteryx. :D

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Ah, but was that a dinosaur or a bird?

Miasaura Peeblesaurum

[wendy-lady.livejournal.com]

The Miasaura Peeblesaurum is a duck-billed dino found (so far) only on Egg Mountain in Chauteau, MT, USA. It is the first to prove that dinosaurs took care of their young and traveled in family groups. It is named Miasaura (duck-billed) and Peeblesaurum after the last name of the landowner whose land it was found on.

When I was a kid, I was a Junior rock hound, and belonged to a Junior Gem & Mineral Club. My group was instrumental in getting the Miasaura introduced to the Montana State Representatives as a possibility for Montana to be the first to have it's own State fossil. We got a lot of other people involved, and actual got the bill passed. Montana is the first and only state with an official State Fossil.

Re: Miasaura Peeblesaurum

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I think I may have heard of this, but I'm not sure - I thought Maiasaur was 'good mother dinosaur' (like Gaia is a mothery sort of name as well). Is this the same one or is it a different one?

[stickette.livejournal.com]

My first favourite was Ankylosaurus - a kind of passive-aggressive herbivore built like a tank and with a rather nifty club at the end of its tail. I was rather sad to discover that the one I loved from my childhood book was in fact a mix-up of two skeletons and so more of a a work of fiction than usual.

Present favourites - the fantastically name Riojasaurus, who ought to be a pal of Drinker if they could call a truce. I also rather like Saltopus - being one of the few dinos discovered in Scotland. (Apart from Nessie of course, although strictly speaking she is a flippered marine reptile!)