Anyone else love Dinosaurs/PaleoBio?

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I know that a lot of people are fascinated by "the ancient world", but I find it fascinating to the degree that I was almost planning earning a degree in the study of it. haha
If anyone else on here does find ancient creatures and life to be of interest, what's your favorite "dinosaur" related thing? It could be the Jurassic Park movies, maybe the newest discovery (like over how iridescent Microraptors really were!), early mammals, ancient bivalves, therapods, first evidence of existing life... go crazy. Maybe you agree with how birds are considered to be present day "dinosaurs", or maybe you disagree. Any and every topic is fair game to discuss!

Some of my favorite topics regarding ancient life are the Precambrian and Ordovician periods, almost anything ancient marine life, all those giant insects, and basically all of the therapods. Regarding shows/movies, I've probably watched "Chased by Dinosaurs" 18 times by now. Never gets old :0

Ha ha, I've been fascinated with dinosaurs for as long as I can remember. When I was partially verbal as a tiny kid, I would only repeat the names of dinosaur species over and over again.

One thing that I've always been fascinated with dinosaurs is that they were so different to life on the planet now. In my opinion, they're mysterious and almost like puzzles yet to be solved. My favourite dinosaurs are definitely the Utahraptor and the Diplodocus. One of my favourite films is Jurassic Park and I'm taking it to boarding school with me. I've got the Jurassic Park comics too somewhere. I've got to dig them up and start reading them when I have the chance! I also used to watch the film series Land Before Time over and over again when I was younger and I loved the films. I don't know how many times I watched them and I also don't know how many times I've watched Jurassic Park either. I love the scene with Tim and Lex trying to escape from the Velociraptors.

And I love knowing that when I'm with birds I'm walking with the descendants of dinosaurs!

I have much of the same feelings over them! I wish that when I had been partially verbal my forms of communication would have been through dinosaur names, but sadly all I could handle was communicating through song and interpretive dance. Strangely reminiscent of High School Musical, but with far better artistic (autistic? ha) visions and just a 3-4 year old kid twirling around and flailing her arms in frustration in time to operatic sentences. inspiring. hahah

I definitely agree with you over the "puzzles to be solved" bit, and I find it wonderful how past information that's contained within these puzzles can actually assist with present-day applications! Also, birds are probably my favorite animal due to how they're a link to dinosaurs.
Hope your boarding school experience goes well--bringing along a copy of Jurassic Park and all those other cool things should definitely help ;)

yes. But it's quite strange because i am heavily religious (christian) yet i love reading theories on the earths start etc...

That doesn't seem strange to me; I had heard that many Christian denominations had proposed a sort of "compromise" on the whole Creationism topic and the creation of the Earth. I think that one of their proposed compromises was that God (or any religious figure, since there are so many different religions) started the Big Bang or something.
I'm not religious at all, but I did used to be quite a devout Catholic in my younger years, so I can understand your consternation. I wouldn't worry too much about, it, though. I'm only stating this from a "non-believers" viewpoint, but I'm sure your God would love you to find out more and understand the world you live in. :)

I love the ancient world, despite the fact that Dinos were the ultimate awesome animals.. I believe that right after that, the ancient civilizations had a lot of knowledge that nowadays is either being hidden from the masses or still unknown for our understandment.

If I could pet a dino, would totally be Pterry. Just imagining flying on one of those straight to the mountains...

I always had a fascination for them...though it has become a bit of an 'ugh' lately.

Its quite irritating when people learn you're an archaeologist and the first thing they ask is how many dinosaurs i've dug up.

/groan.

I mean, part of me would LOVE to do it. There's no dig that the sliver of hope crosses my mind (though we don't dig THAT deep but you never know, sometimes the earth does push up stuff). Closest I came to was finding a megalodon tooth

My fave part is the Cretaceous, particularly the extinction event. One of the thing Id like to see with my own eyes one day is the strata level in the soil that is found worldwide that shows evidence of the impact (its a black, ash-like rock layer about an inch or two thick found all over the planet that dates back to the extinction event).

Archaeologists dig up dirt about people!