This makes me realize: was I dinosaur poser as a kid? I claimed to love dinosaurs and I had all the books and stuff, but I never read them and the only fact I could recite was that brontosaurus and apatasaurus were the same dinosaur.
My favorite dinosaur as a kid was Allosaurus, because it was like the underdog that was like a velociraptor and t-rex combined and I drew dinosaurs on everything (even the school white board one time when people were doodling).
@skep While you may have been a poser dinosaur kid, I will point out that the information about dinosaurs for kids in the 80s and 90s was not great. A dinosaur book that I've had since I was 4 or 5 had a WOOLY MAMMOTH pictured among dinosaurs.
@pixelglade Yeah it kind of baffles me why the Allosaurus got completely overlooked in Jurassic Park. They knew that Velociraptors were only 3 feet tall and decided to make them scientifically innacurate anyway, while the right sized dinosaur for the Clever Girl job is one of the longest-known dinosaurs.
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This makes me realize: was I dinosaur poser as a kid? I claimed to love dinosaurs and I had all the books and stuff, but I never read them and the only fact I could recite was that brontosaurus and apatasaurus were the same dinosaur.
this mfer thinks brontosaurus and apatosaurus are the same dinosaur smdh man pick up a book
Get wrecked 5-year-old Skep
Ankylosaurus is my favorite.
My favorite dinosaur as a kid was Allosaurus, because it was like the underdog that was like a velociraptor and t-rex combined and I drew dinosaurs on everything (even the school white board one time when people were doodling).
Okay maybe "underappreciated" is a better term than underdog, but it felt like an underdog to me.
@skep While you may have been a poser dinosaur kid, I will point out that the information about dinosaurs for kids in the 80s and 90s was not great. A dinosaur book that I've had since I was 4 or 5 had a WOOLY MAMMOTH pictured among dinosaurs.
@oopsiedoodle I recently learned about one of the most beautiful dinosaur fossils to exist, which is of an ankylosaur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borealopelta#/media/File:Nodosaur.jpg We actually know what color its skin was. ;.;
@pixelglade Yeah it kind of baffles me why the Allosaurus got completely overlooked in Jurassic Park. They knew that Velociraptors were only 3 feet tall and decided to make them scientifically innacurate anyway, while the right sized dinosaur for the Clever Girl job is one of the longest-known dinosaurs.