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.

[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.

[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...

[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?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, 'ark at 'im. Thinks 'e's clever wiv 'is fancy google, 'an all.

[ex-boog351.livejournal.com]

I think they thought it would upset us if the Triceratops got beaten. Little do they know kids.

I suggest instead they show a picture of the two lumbering giants facing each other, then a second with a T-Rex dabbing its mouth with a napkin and ordering liquers. Much more realistic.

[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.

[emlett.livejournal.com]

didn't one of the old harry hanhausen movies have a fight between a t-rex and triceratops in it? i think if people were asked to picture a fight between 2 dino's most people would come up with those two and be rooting for the triceratops. they were my favourite, i had loads of toy dinosaurs when i was younger. my triceratops was pink for some reason. I was very disappointed when i found out that they weren't actually pink

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

"Care for a hParasuchus, Mr. T_Rex? They're wafer thin?"

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes - I think it was The Land that Time forgot, but it may have been The Valley of Gwangi. I forget.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

No, I'm wrong, it was One Million Years BC. What am I thinking? I must have been disrtacted by the fur bikini.

[emlett.livejournal.com]

is that the one with raquel welch & no-one actually speaks, it's all just grunts?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Yes. My ideal woman, in many ways.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

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

[weejock.livejournal.com]

I've been Southernised.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You poor, poor thing. IN that case I take it all back. Save yourself, before it is too late!

[emlett.livejournal.com]

I'll bet!
i've actually sat through that film as well. I think it would have been more interesting if i'd not been sober

[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.