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What is the most overrated dinosaur?

By YPB Team

Museum stars and movie celebrities sit next to species most people have never heard of. Fame is the only thing on trial here.

  1. Triceratops — ranked #11
    Triceratops
    The three-horned plant-eater that shared the Hell Creek landscape with T. rex.
    1000pts
  2. Ankylosaurus — ranked #22
    Ankylosaurus
    The armoured tank of the Late Cretaceous, swinging a bony tail club.
    1000pts
  3. Carnotaurus — ranked #33
    Carnotaurus
    A horned, short-snouted Argentine predator with arms even smaller than T. rex's.
    1000pts
  4. Iguanodon — ranked #44
    Iguanodon
    One of the first dinosaurs ever named, once drawn with its thumb spike on its nose.
    958pts
  5. Allosaurus — ranked #55
    Allosaurus
    The top predator of the Late Jurassic, tens of millions of years before T. rex.
    789pts
  6. Parasaurolophus — ranked #66
    Parasaurolophus
    A duck-billed hadrosaur with a long hollow head crest that may have worked like a trumpet.
    789pts
  7. Pachycephalosaurus — ranked #77
    Pachycephalosaurus
    The dome-headed dinosaur long pictured head-butting rivals like a ram.
    684pts
  8. Brontosaurus — ranked #88
    Brontosaurus
    The long-necked icon that was sunk into Apatosaurus for a century, then revived in 2015.
    560pts
  9. Stegosaurus — ranked #99
    Stegosaurus
    The plated Jurassic herbivore with a spiked tail and a famously small brain.
    560pts
  10. Giganotosaurus — ranked #1010
    Giganotosaurus
    An Argentine giant carnivore often billed as bigger than T. rex.
    560pts
  11. Diplodocus — ranked #1111
    Diplodocus
    One of the longest dinosaurs, known to museum crowds as Dippy.
    560pts
  12. Brachiosaurus — ranked #1212
    Brachiosaurus
    The giraffe-shaped sauropod that greets the visitors in Jurassic Park.
    560pts
  13. Tyrannosaurus rex — ranked #1313
    Tyrannosaurus rex
    The celebrity theropod, famous for its bite and mocked for its tiny two-fingered arms.
    410pts
  14. Velociraptor — ranked #1414
    Velociraptor
    A turkey-sized feathered hunter that Jurassic Park turned into a man-sized scaly killer.
    410pts
  15. Dilophosaurus — ranked #1515
    Dilophosaurus
    An early crested theropod that Jurassic Park gave a venom spit and a neck frill it never had.
    410pts
  16. Spinosaurus — ranked #1616
    Spinosaurus
    The sail-backed river hunter whose size and swimming ability are still argued over.
    0pts

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