He’s like a cockroach, he’ll survive nearly anything except for bodily harm. I’m genuinely amazed that he’s still alive, good for him
You ever fight an extremely angry feral cat? I feel like even tiny raptors could easily hospitalize a regular person if you don't get lucky.
It's fairly simple with dinosaurs, imo. If it flies or swims - it's not a dinosaur. So plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs are not dinos. Se goes for pterosaurs. It's terrestrial animals where it gets difficult
what about animals like archaeopteryx, that could fly, or spinosaurus that had adaptations for swimming?
Rule of thumb, it's not perfect. Plus AFAIK archaeopteryx was more of a glider, rather than a dedicated flyer (the way pterodactyl was). You can also tell bird-like theropods from pterosaurs by the legs - birds have long-ish legs, while pterosaurs have short-ish legs (like bats).
As for the spinosaurs, while a swimmer (it's hard to keep track, poor sod is getting retconned every other day) it was not an open sea kind of swimmer - just compare spinosaur's limbs to that of a mosasaur
Most people consider and refer to everything bofore Ice age as dinosaurs, so not weird.
The microraptor weighed around a kg, so I'd swat it in my panicked flailing and feel like shit afterwards.
Not technically, but it was a prehistoric animal, which makes it a "dinosaur" in my eyes. Also, does it really matter?
It matters if you're a paleontologist or just a bore (like me). Gotta be pedantic about some things, otherwise people might think dolphins are fish because they live in the ocean. No offense meant, comrade
True, but this is hardly a college lecture, so for the fun of the game I felt like my answer was "close enough". I feel like it definitely makes sense to be pedantic in most places, but a discussion of favorite dinosaurs feels a but much.
Also dinosaur has become more of a colloquial term over the years as well, which has bent its popular definition to simply include many prehistoric non-mammal animals. However you are right in the paleontological definition.
A real Dilophosaurus would annihilate me, that thing was apparently a very active hunter & as big as a tiger.
I would probably forfeit just to pet a Psittacosaurus.
Probably spinosaurus. I have no weapons and their weapon is their teeth, I'd be dead in less than five seconds.
My younger self loved the triceratops. Similar results, only that the triceratops was vegetarian, so I must really deserve it if it kills me.
A lot of large herbivores are more aggressive than carnivores, especially if they are a herd animal
I always liked the Mamenchisaurus. No way on Earth I could even come close to killing it. Also kinda unrelated but I heard that some Dinosaurs may have had feathers, how do yall feel about that?
They were a bit bigger than in Jurassic Park, but just a bit, so 1vs1 them is easy.
Ankylosaurus was a herbivore so it wouldn’t eat me but it was also heavily armoured with a giant club of a tail so realistically it would either ignore my presence as I don’t pose much of a threat or it’d clobber me to death.
Tyrannosaurus? I’m screwed. They’re the top predator, amazing eyesight (contrary to the movies), incredibly fast (I think they can run up to 30km/h), has the strongest bite force of any animal that has ever lived, I don’t even know why I’m bothering to list all these traits since everyone knows a T-Rex could fuck you up no matter what.
T-Rex had vision based on movement in Jurassic Park because of frog DNA and yeah, just one bite and it's done.