# Tyrannosaurus rex: everyone's favorite dinosaur, right? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 29, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938 "2010-06-29T15:28:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/21 "2010-06-29T16:51:50Z")
Everybody likes Triceratops ( not just girls! ). The armored tank of the dinosaur world. Check out [Tundro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC2AliZmR4A), who also happened to be my favorite Herculoid. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/22 "2010-06-29T17:12:25Z")
Yeah, triceratops are just cool. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/23 "2010-06-29T17:15:29Z")
I was fond of _Deinonychus_ before velociraptors were cool, but my current favorite are the hadrosaurs. ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/24 "2010-06-29T17:24:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I used to think Pachycephalosaurus was cool, until I really paid attention to the display case at the AMNH. The similar Stegoceras was the big one. The Pachy was a little skull smaller than a tennis ball. Maybe it was a juvenile. Maybe it’s better call it “cute”, but it’s no longer on my list of “cool” dinosaurs. No, you had it right the first time. _Pachycephalosaurus_ was much bigger than _Stegoceras_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/25 "2010-06-29T17:33:36Z")
> [@](#): > > o, you had it right the first time. Pachycephalosaurus was much bigger than Stegoceras. No, I recalled surprise to learn that the Pachy skull was actually smaller than the Stegoceras skull, the opposite of what i had expected (and had assumed over the years). ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/26 "2010-06-29T17:58:05Z")
In terms of gigantic prehistoric reptiles, it was the sea-going ones that always gave me the shivers. [Pliosaur](http://sevencolors.org/images/photo/pliosaur.jpg) is probably my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/27 "2010-06-29T18:04:11Z")
I love apatasaurs but that’s not surprising if you know me. I’m just like one. 🙂 I think the T-Rex is the most popular though. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/28 "2010-06-29T18:06:01Z")
That’s a hard choice. I’ve been a dino fan since reading the first selection The Weekly Reader Book Club sent: _All About Dinosaurs_ by [Roy Chapman Andrews](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chapman_Andrews). Even if some of that stuff was wrong–it’s been great fun to follow developments in the field. And to see all that _Walking With…_. stuff on TV! My current favorite is [Quetzalcoatlus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus), first discovered in Texas. We’ve got a skeleton hanging from the ceiling in Houston’s Natural History Museum. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/29 "2010-06-29T18:06:44Z")
Gotta be the Pterodactyl for me. It can _fly_. It was my favorite in my plastic dinosaur set. Of course, I always loved the angel best in the Nativity set too. I’m not happy unless something’s flying around. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/30 "2010-06-29T18:12:52Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > In terms of gigantic prehistoric reptiles, it was the sea-going ones that always gave me the shivers. [Pliosaur](http://sevencolors.org/images/photo/pliosaur.jpg) is probably my favorite. Not actually dinosaurs. Of course, you wrote “gigantic prehistoric reptiles,” not “dinosaurs,” so I’m not sure why I was going with this. Ah well. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/31 "2010-06-29T18:22:12Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > In terms of gigantic prehistoric reptiles, it was the sea-going ones that always gave me the shivers. [Pliosaur](http://sevencolors.org/images/photo/pliosaur.jpg) is probably my favorite. Exactly what I was going to say. The sea monsters are super creepy cool, especially Pliosaur and [Megalodon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon) - a shark the size of a [city bus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Megalodon_scale1.png)! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/32 "2010-06-29T18:23:13Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I was always partial to Triceratops though I have no idea why. They just seemed cool to my eight year old self. Wrong. > [@Stuffy](#): > > Me too… You too. > [@Ambihelical\_Hexnut](#): > > I always liked the Stegosaurus. Weak. > [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Velociraptor! Lame. Actually, the velociraptor is pretty cool, but you’re still wrong. > [@WhyNot](#): > > See, I always preferred triceratops because she looks so gentle, but you just know if someone messes with her, she can take care of herself. She’s the ultimate Mama Bear. Nope. > [@Wile\_E](#): > > Nope, not really a T. Rex fan. Nuh uh. > [@Anaamika](#): > > Another Triceratops fan. No. _No, no, no, no, no!_ T-Rex rocks your face, but first, will rip its flesh off and eat it alive. [This](http://planetdinosaur.com/dinosaur_list/images/tyrannosaurus_rex_ms.jpg) is what I think of everyone’s precious triceratops. Oh, and brontosaurus? Total pussy. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/33 "2010-06-29T18:30:16Z")
[Styracosaurus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Styracosaurus_albertensis_skull_02.jpg). Do you have enough deadly vicious horns? More? _sprinkle sprinkle_ How’s that? More? Say when…_sprinkle sprinkle_ ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/34 "2010-06-29T18:31:36Z")
I’m a guy, but solidly in the triceratops camp. Nothing says don’t mess with me like those three wicked head-horns, backed by a solid neck shield. If only they hadn’t died out – imagine the shock and awe of a cavalry charge of a solid wall of triceratops. Unstoppable. The marine reptiles and flyers were totally cool and awesome, but they’re not technically dinosaurs. T-rex is big and toothy, but those tiny little arms are just silly. And sure they were huge, but were they really fierce predators or just overgrown vultures feeding on Jurassic road-kill? ---
**Author:** ![Koldanar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@Koldanar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koldanar)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/35 "2010-06-29T18:47:03Z")
> [@Ambihelical\_Hexnut](#): > > I always liked the Stegosaurus. The plates on its back look really cool, and I’m amazed that such a huge animal could function with a brain the size of a peanut. He had ARMOR and WEAPONS! T-Rex had those teeth sure, but come on, those tiny arms! ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/36 "2010-06-29T19:15:00Z")
Triceratops, and I’m a manly man. The thing is, it’s an herbivore. It’s not looking for trouble. But if you screw with it, it will mess you up. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/37 "2010-06-29T19:26:17Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > No. > > _No, no, no, no, no!_ T-Rex rocks your face, but first, will rip its flesh off and eat it alive. [This](http://planetdinosaur.com/dinosaur_list/images/tyrannosaurus_rex_ms.jpg) is what I think of everyone’s precious triceratops. > > Oh, and brontosaurus? Total pussy. I think I’m beginning to understand your user name. Just a bit. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/38 "2010-06-29T19:28:44Z")
I didn’t like the T-Rex because of **Land of the Lost**. Not because I was afraid for Marshall, Will and Holly, but because even to my young self it looked totally [lame](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSKIuJWRMaI#t=01m09s). I was a Pterodactyl fan, all the way. (That’s what I will continue to call it). ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/39 "2010-06-29T19:34:26Z")
Q: Why do kids like dinosaurs so much? A: They’re big, and scary, and very, very, dead. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938/40 "2010-06-29T19:48:17Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > … > The marine reptiles and flyers were totally cool and awesome, but they’re not technically dinosaurs. I like the flying reptiles, too, but that is why I did not mention the pterodactyls and it had absolutely nothing to do with them completely slipping my mind. > [@Arrendajo](#): > > T-rex is big and toothy, but those tiny little arms are just silly. And sure they were huge, but were they really fierce predators or just overgrown vultures feeding on Jurassic road-kill? Yep, tiny arms are silly. I’m sure all the other dinos were constantly mocking the T. Rexes, probably why they had such bad dispositions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tyrannosaurus-rex-everyones-favorite-dinosaur-right/544938.md?page=3)