Favorite Dinosaur

[Anomalocaris]

Bit like dimetrodon, which was -my- favorite dinosaur as a kid (we had lizards with sails and penny necks and it was just so easy to work them in with my little tanks and army men).  Then one day you learn it isn't a dino at all and that blows your mind too.

Indeed, dimetrodon was much more closely related to mammals than to dinosaurs.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Bit like dimetrodon, which was -my- favorite dinosaur as a kid (we had lizards with sails and penny necks and it was just so easy to work them in with my little tanks and army men).  Then one day you learn it isn't a dino at all and that blows your mind too.

Indeed, dimetrodon was much more closely related to mammals than to dinosaurs.

We could solve all this by creating a new supertaxon called ‘prehistoric monsters’ - every animal kids wish was a dinosaur could be included.

Boru

[Rev. Rye]

When I was a young, dinosaur-obsessed boy, I was always partial to the Iguanodon. Seemingly gentle, but with giant, thumb-like spikes and not afraid to use them to defend himself.

Also, it was the first dinosaur to ever be discovered.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liopleurodon (Could eat T. Rex.)

You’ve been watching too much Jurassic park.    

In any case Liopleuodon was not a dinosaur.

You tell her that.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

When I was a young, dinosaur-obsessed boy, I was always partial to the Iguanodon. Seemingly gentle, but with giant, thumb-like spikes and not afraid to use them to defend himself.

Also, it was the first dinosaur to ever be discovered.

Remember the "models" they built from those first skeletons? Looked like hippo built by Frankenstein.

[brewer]

When I was a young, dinosaur-obsessed boy, I was always partial to the Iguanodon. Seemingly gentle, but with giant, thumb-like spikes and not afraid to use them to defend himself.

Also, it was the first dinosaur to ever be discovered.

Remember the "models" they built from those first skeletons? Looked like  hippo built by Frankenstein.

[Angrboda]

[The Grand Nudger]

Remember the "models" they built from those first skeletons? Looked like  hippo built by Frankenstein.

I spent pretty much the entirety of 2nd grade making big puffy dino models out of pipe cleaners and paper mache.  They didn't have any of the programs I was in  - so - basically just housed me in a classroom until all of that could be arranged.  Beautiful old one room spanish school house on brick streets with shell avenues, you could see boca ciega bay and paradise island from the jungle gym...and if you could get up on the roof, treasure island too.   The roof...was where all the mini dimetrodons lived. 140 fuckin degrees.

The flocks of parakeets could drown out the sun like clouds and they were so loud that you couldn't hear anything over them. It was very, very easy to play like an explorer in the land of the lost.



It's one of my earliest memories.

[no one]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Not nearly that pretty right now. My friends have made "helpful suggestions" in sharpie on my head.