Emo rock quartet The Silent Mile hails from the Green Mountain state, based in the city of Burlington, Vermont. Recently The Silent Mile dropped a video for their latest single,  the emo/pop punk anthem “Set Me Free”.

As part of our ongoing “Top Ten” series, we asked The Silent Mile if they was any subject they would like to talk about. They picked….Dinosaurs. So without any further delay, here is The Silent Mile’s Top Ten Favorite Dinosaurs.

1. Triceratops. Fuck the controversy behind whether these guys are an actual (two) species or whether they’re a juvenile Taurosaurus. They’re cute as fuck and obviously the best dinosaur.

   

2. Microraptor. The smallest species of raptor, crazy little predators. About the size of a hawk, both their forelimbs and hindlimbs acted as wings, making them cool as fuck.

   

3. Argentinosaurus. A sauropod that lived in what is now Argentina in the late Cretaceous period. Possibly the largest fucking dinosaur weighing in at somewhere between 99 and 110 tons. Isn’t that fucking huge?

   

4. Utahraptor. The largest known species of raptor. The velociraptors in Jurassic Park? Yeah they’re not that big in real life, they are only about as big as a turkey. Utahraptor was much larger, bigger than a human, and this gave it much more killing force.

   

5. Smilodon. What’s more fucking cool than an ice tiger with sabers for teeth? Nothing. Literally nothing.

   

6. Pachycephalosaurus. It is cute. It has a helmet like skull so it can SMASH. That is all.

   

7. Stegosaurus. Dude, it’s stegosaurus, need we say more? The spiky end of its tail is called the thagomizer, a term coined by “Far Side” creator Gary Larson, and actually used by paleontologists.

   

8. Tyrannosaurus Rex. It’s a MOTHERFUCKING T REX. A fun fact about this dinosaur is that despite common depictions scientists believe it is covered in a coat of down feathers, resembling fur. IT’S SO FLUFFY.

   

9. Erlikosaurus. This dinosaur is like if Wolverine was a dinosaur. This late Cretaceous theropod had super long claws, possibly used to defend itself against predators.

   

10. Velociraptor. Stereotypical because everyone thinks they’re cool, and evidently we do too. Much smaller and more feathered than the raptors in the Jurassic Park films, but very fast, likely reaching speeds of 40 mph.

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