There were 700 species of Dinosaurs in the world.
Do you have a favorite?
If so which one?
Mine might have to be the - Ankylosaurus
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Maybe the spinosaurus. This guy is full of surprises, and each time it’s appearance changes due to a new thiscovery, I like ti more.
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The next one.
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Cracticus torquatus, not even joking. If we have to restrict it to the Mesozoic, probably Minmi paravertebra/ Kunbarrasaurus ieversi (I list both because they were the same species when I chose them). If we mean Mesozoic animals in general, then Koolasuchus cleelandi.
I also have a soft spot for Muttaburrasaurus langdoni.
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Pachycephalosaurus!
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Baeolophus bicolor and Quiscalus mexicanus both have a special place in my heart as some of my favorite dinosaurs.
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700 species seems like a huge underestimate. There are 11.000 species of dinosaur alive today, so over their full 240 million years of existence we’re probably looking at hundreds of thousands of species of dinosaur.
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Not counting birds, probably Oviraptor, especially thanks to a fanciful reconstruction where it resembled a macaw (though I dislike it’s use of the “egg-stealing oviraptorosaurs” trope): Nest Robber by Jonathan Kuo.
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Deinocheirus. It has to have some really bizarre adaptations, and shows like Amazing Dinoworld and Prehistoric Planet have done some awe-inspiring reconstructions of the species. A close second is Yi qi, which just looks like a little dragon.
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Hummingbirds are pretty amazing.
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You didn’t specify non-avian so i’m going to go with Humming Birds. Archilochus colubris is the most common in my area. They rule.
When it comes to non-avian I really dig Ceratosaurus. Check out those brow horns.
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If we’re including avian dinosaurs, this is a super hard question - I don’t know if I have a single favourite!
If we’re only counting non-avians, It would be a toss-up between Spinosaurus, Microraptor (and dromaeosaurs in general) and Deinocheirus. All are super interesting animals!
Not sure if these count as avians or not, but I’m a fan of enantiornithines and other non-modern bird groups, such as Falcatakely, Ichthyornis, Archaeopteryx and Confuciusornis.
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Carnotaurus, just for its silly little arms. They make me smile.
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One of the original large bipedal dinos, Allosaurus.
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Irritator challengeri by Anthony Hutchins
Spinosaurids are very cool as far as Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs go
For mesozoic life in general, I really like Azhdarchids
Also, there are currently 1276 (from Wikipedia - a few more have been described since, the current number is closer to 1280-1290) valid non-avian dinosaur genera known from the Mesozoic. It barely takes into account the possible diversity of such a long-lived clade, considering the extremely low percentages of remains that ever become fossilized, let alone described and classified by our taxonomic systems.
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Spinosaurus (Stromer, 1915)
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Delighted to be asked! There are so many favorites. I’ve always kept a place in my heart for Stenonychosaurus – but if we’re just going to crown one, Styracosaurus has the right look.
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Well, there are so many, I can’t pick just one. But, just to be different, I’ll pick my home state’s state fossil: Coelophysis bauri [PS - love all the comments about not counting birds. :-)]
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Parasaurolophus always had a special place in my heart
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