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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

My favourite dinosaur?

Why, you, of course.

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)

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

My favorite was the Archaeopteryx. :D

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.

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!)

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