Styracosaur. Although I like the post-Jurassic World suggestion that Velociraptors may well have been charging around like really, really scary versions of Big Bird.
We recently visited a place near here where they found a bunch of dinosaur bones. The best name we learned from them is the magyarosaurus dacus which manages to cover both the Hungarian and Romanian aspects of Transylvania
I also like the pachycephalosauraus, the hard-headed dinosaur. Partly for its name, partly because I saw the skull in a museum in Oxfordshire and it looks cool, partly because it was my nephew's favourite dinosaur when he was 4, and I was impressed that he could pronounce it then.
I only recently learned that dinosaur is a specific taxonomy and doesn’t refer to many kinds of ancient reptiles.
I did a four sentence illustrated report on ankylosaurus in second grade. Back then, we were told they were ancient reptiles. But true dinosaurs were (very, very) ancient birds.
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