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Therazinosaurus. What even is this thing? Look at this big pokey boi:

Camarasaurus, because I found a tooth of one while volunteering on a dig site

Triceratops. The only thing wrong with rhinos are that they have too few horns and not enough armor plating.

Steg

I like the triceratops. Having three pointy bits makes it 50% more awesome than rhinos.

There any love here for Icthyosaurus?

Just looks like a big derpy lemony shaped dolphin, with a snoot that 76% more boopable.

Your grandma

Pachycephalosaurus the thick headed one

enanthiornes, the "opposite birds" that are not related to the birds as we know it.

The peregrine falcon. Because it’s the fastest animal (that we know of)!

Fantail. It is pretty cute.

If it has to be extinct, then Deinonychus. It is like the Velociraptor, but is actually big enough to mean business.

Spinosaurus.

Because it stymies paleontologists seemingly every time one of them tries to figure it out.

Quetzalcoatlus. Technically it isn't a dinosaur but that makes it - and me accordingly - even more special.

I have a few.

By far the frontrunner is Parasaurolophus. Hadrosaurs are cool, Lambeosaurid Hadrosaurs are cooler. Not to besmirch my boy Edmontosaurus tho. The biggest Hadrosaur is also on my list.

I am also a big fan of the Borealopelta. This is a Nodosaurid Ankylosaur, meaning it has shoulder spikes instead of a tail club. I like this guy because of the story of its discovery, as well as the fantastic display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum. Also helps that it's the most intact armored dino ever found.

Finally there is the Regaliceratops. Like a Triceratops, but with a super fun crown!

The lad with the thagomizer. Because of the thagomizer.

Any dead one. They are f-ing dangerous.

At this moment it is the stegosaurus. The tiny ass head, huge plates down the back, thunder thighs, and thagomizer named by a cartoonist is just awesome sauce.

Plus there are more millions of years between the stegosaurus and the tyrannosaurus than between the tyrannosaurus and humans.

Stegosaurus. Cant beat the classic. Though Iguanodon is close second.

Chicken ofc 🍗

Euoplocephalus, because I'm a hipster.

Honourable mention to anurognathus. Pterosaur rather than dinosaur, but so cute!

Any of the Hadrosauridae. Probably Lambeosaurus, specifically for the cover to one of the Dinotopia paperbacks:

More recently it has been determined that hadrosaur likely walked most frequently on all fours, with a larger tail. Still amazing looking creatures (credit to Gabriel Ugueto for the art):

Ankylosaurus is a strong contender. Really strong contender. But stegosaurus is still MVP.

You gave the correct answer. Done.

The little tiny raptor things. I don't remember what they're called.

Technically not a dinosaur but a Pterosaur, but still, Quetzalcoatlus https://dino.fandom.com/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus.

Would make my morning commute way more fun.

Dinosaur? None really. But I really like the explosion of life in the Cambrian (give or take a little) period was like nature trying out all kinds of absolutely crazy shit just to see what worked. I really like just checking out the era, truly alien and bizarre. So no favorite dinosaur, but definitely an era.

Sauropods because BIG

But really, I mean look at those things!! They traveled together in herds and the size of them meant that as they walked, the strata of the earth was fucking shuffled. How cool is that?????

Troodon. Little dudes that were thought to be smart, formed communities, had weird teeth, and have been the cause of multiple controversies over classification or existing at all. So, tiny trouble makers.

Titanosaurs! 100+ feet long, 100+ tonnes. Imagine if a blue whale had legs and a long neck. And it walked around. We would be like mice to them, or insects to the largest ones.

When I was a kid I really liked allosaurus. Everyone knew and liked tyrannosaurus, which made him too mainstream. I also had a book with really cool visualisation of allosaurus which helped me to prefer this bad mf.

Chicken. It tastes good.

Protoceratops because I am completely convinced they would be cool hanging out on the couch, playing fetch, and otherwise acting like a dinosaur house pet.