Dinosaur tattoos are great for archeology lovers, Jurassic Park fans, and anyone who loves huge and cool-looking animals. They aren’t the most meaningful tattoo designs in the world, but that isn’t actually a big problem with dinosaurs because, well, they’re dinosaurs! Below you will find out why so many people opt to get dinosaur tattoos over all of the other tattoo options that are available to them.

Strength is probably the most common meaning attached to dinosaur tattoos today, and for obvious reasons. Most dinosaurs make the “big” animals of today look like shrimps, so you could say that they are the ultimate symbols of strength in the animal world. It’s so obvious, in fact, that if you choose to use this meaning you don’t even have to tweak your design at all for people to know what it represents.

Similarly, power is another meaning that people like to use with their dinosaur tattoos. Power is a different than strength, though, in that it represents the owner’s physical prowess rather than their physical and emotional strength. Someone who takes a lot of pride in being powerful, whether physically or in their working life, might find that this is the perfect dinosaur tattoo meaning for them.

We usually recommend that people do attach at least one deep meaning to their tattoos, but that’s not completely necessary with the dinosaur tattoo. The fact is that plenty of folks get their dinosaur tattoos simply because they love the look of the creatures or they’re huge fans of archeology. The most important thing is that you will always love your dinosaur design and your interest won’t fade as the years go by. If you’ve always been a fan of dinosaurs, then that’s a good enough reason to get one of these tattoos.

Dinosaurs happen to have extremely cool-looking skulls, so some people will opt to go that route rather than getting a living dinosaur in their designs. Skulls represent death and the tattoo owner’s acceptance of his or her mortality, but that’s not a meaning that you have to attach to dinosaur skull tattoos. These designs work extremely well going down the length of the forearm or even across the ribs.