One of the first we know of at least! And they looked much more bird-y than my fave Anchiornis:
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This has to be one of the most hilarious recreations I've seen:
Chickims qualify!
… I wonder what other dinosaurs tasted like?
Head butting problems to make them go away since 85.8 Mya
Right? And what's really wild is that birds are literally dinosaurs. Not just descended from dinosaurs, but classified as feathered theropods and the only known living dinosaurs
And their name means "egg thief"!
Thunder lizard! Brontosaur's another classic, ginormous boyes
If the Ankylosaurus was nature going "what if tank?" then the Parasaurolophus was nature going "what if dinosaur but cow?"
Completely understandable! They're a classic
Ain’t no cowboy gonna ride ol’ spiney.
"Semiaquatic dinosaur rodeo" is an underappreciated theme. Maybe we'll see it in the next Jurassic Park.
The larger ones would have been absolutely fucking terrifying: