Polygon has rounded up ten memorable dinosaur-themed comic strips from Gary Larson's The Far Side, the long-running newspaper cartoon that ran from 1980 to 1995 and produced over 4,000 strips. The piece highlights Larson's recurring dinosaur gags, separate from his single most famous dinosaur cartoon: the 1982 "thagomizer" strip, which jokingly named the spiky end of a Stegosaurus's tail and was later adopted as genuine scientific terminology by institutions including the Smithsonian.

The selected strips fall into recurring comic themes Larson returned to repeatedly, including dinosaurs performing mundane human activities (such as flossing or searching cereal boxes for prizes), dinosaurs obliviously facing their own extinction, jokes about paleontologists depicted as childish rather than serious scientists, and confusion between dinosaurs and pterosaurs (which are technically not dinosaurs). The article notes several specific strips by date, including one from August 1985 and another from January 1986, and observes that Larson also frequently drew chickens as a nod to birds' status as modern dinosaurs.