What Is Your Favorite Dinosaur...?

[Circle_10]

Could be worse, at least he hasn't gone full on Cranky Old Man like Horner...

#UnapologeticBakkerite

Yeah Horner got kinda weird, with his fixation on “Chickenasaurus” and later marrying that 20yr old student of his.

[Diamondback]

Yeah Horner got kinda weird, with his fixation on “Chickenasaurus” and later marrying that 20yr old student of his.

Yeah, painful thing seeing one of your childhood heroes lose his shit, then lose it even more, then head for just shy of pedo. Actually, Horner now LOOKS kinda creepy even... RTB may be controversial, but so far all data I've seen hasn't given me any reason to be uncomfortable letting my kids (if I had any) go out on a dig with him.

[ViniVidivici]

My favorite dinosaur is Eurodriver.

What do I win?

[Circle_10]

Yeah, painful thing seeing one of your childhood heroes lose his shit, then lose it even more, then head for just shy of pedo. Actually, Horner now LOOKS kinda creepy even... RTB may be controversial, but so far all data I've seen hasn't given me any reason to be uncomfortable letting my kids (if I had any) go out on a dig with him.

I was never clear on the exact reasons but got the impression Horner’s marriage to that college girl was some kind of scam to get her medical insurance or something. I believe they have since separated.

Bakker was always one of my favorites. The Dinosaur Heresies is another old classic I still have. He (Along with Horner, and often Currie) was a staple on 80s and 90s dinosaur documentaries. He doesn’t do a lot of media these days. In re-watching these old shows I’m often struck by how superior they are to a lot of current dinosaur themed material. The science might be outdated, but the material was less sensationalized and didn’t use a ton of half-assed CGI.

[robbins290]

Mine is the Pachycephalosaurus.

[Artos]

Several years ago Dad & I went up to a family friend's ranch for the weekend which had river front property...soon as we rolled in, he stated let's go for walk & we were luck as the river was way low & get to see the dino prints. It was a few hundred yards up stream & I asked Chuck what kind & didn't know but look similar to a turkey print. He then asked how big are typical turkey prints, I stated 3-4 inches depending & then how how tall are turkey which are around 3 foot.

Bout that time we strolled up on over a dozen prints with the smallest being a little over a foot & others over 2ft in the bedrock. I was a bit of a dino geek as a kid & liked them all, but really never had an imprint of the size compared to myself till then...it was a pretty cool & erie at the same time.

[Kadelic]

Triceratops. I used to watch Land Of The Lost on tv after school in the 70s, during the height of my affinity for dinosaurs. I was partial to Spike, the Triceratops that battled the T-Rex Grumpy in one episode.

I'm also partial to Diplodocus, partially for the way it rolls off the tongue.

Since the OP offers some slack on genus, I'd like to give honorable mention to the once mighty Liopleurodon. Again, this one is just fun to say.

[Kadelic]

Triceratops. I used to watch Land Of The Lost on tv after school in the 70s, during the height of my affinity for dinosaurs. I was partial to Spike, the Triceratops that battled the T-Rex Grumpy in one episode.

I'm also partial to Diplodocus, partially for the way it rolls off the tongue.

Since the OP offers some slack on genus, I'd like to give honorable mention to the once mighty Liopleurodon. Again, this one is just fun to say.

[SteyrAUG]

The science might be outdated, but the material was less sensationalized and didn’t use a ton of half-assed CGI.

There is science and there is pop science and I have come to accept that pop science isn't science, it isn't even theory and it barely qualifies as a scientific idea based upon science.

I really got into the BBC Walking with Dinosaurs series, despite the fact that most of it was somewhere between theory and conjecture (because we have almost nothing concrete suggesting dinosaur behavior or social patterns) but it was still pretty decent and I took it in the same "imagine if" ideas that made Cosmos so interesting. Then they came out with Chased by Dinosaurs which was so bad it was appalling. It was like an episode of Crocodile Hunter but with CGI dinosaurs and somehow putting a host that is presented as interacting with dinosaurs was just the worst thing I have ever seen.

[Diamondback]

I was never clear on the exact reasons but got the impression Horner’s marriage to that college girl was some kind of scam to get her medical insurance or something. I believe they have since separated.

Bakker was always one of my favorites. The Dinosaur Heresies is another old classic I still have. He (Along with Horner, and often Currie) was a staple on 80s and 90s dinosaur documentaries. He doesn’t do a lot of media these days. In re-watching these old shows I’m often struck by how superior they are to a lot of current dinosaur themed material. The science might be outdated, but the material was less sensationalized and didn’t use a ton of half-assed CGI.

Almost nobody in paleontology does media anymore, thanks to the Jurassic Park Curse. Spielberg tried to keep up with the science, then Universal execs spiked that after a fan revolt over the feathered raptors in JP3--and they've kinda put out the word in Hollywood that "dinosaurs are OUR thing and if you try it we will squash you like a bug."