I love stuff like this. Here are some real dinosaur/extinct creature names!
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Sauroniops: Literally means Eye of Sauron
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Dracorex Hogwartsia: Dragon King of Hogwarts
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Thanos Simonattoi: after Thanos
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Irritator Challengeri: he was hard to dig up and scientists were angry
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Gasosaurus: discovered while a gas company was being built.
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Gojirasaurus: self explanatory
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Attenborosaurus: plesiosaurus named after David Attenborough.
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Crichtonosaurus: similar to an ankylo and named after author of Jurassic Park
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Bambiraptor sounds cute, and it’s named after the deer (because it was deer sized), but it was a fierce and deadly creature.
There’s so many more; I could nerd out forever. I miss when I was a little girl, and people would actually talk to me about dinosaurs…
No please keep going
I haven’t heard of any of these and they are fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
Here’s hoping one of the scientists would be batshit crazy enough to name a new species Biggus Dickus.
I have a fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus.
SILENCE!
Fortunately, “Dracorex Hogwartsia” turned out to just be a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, not a new species.
I feel excited because almost all of these are new to me.
I love learning these kinds of new things that I won’t use daily and get bored, they’ll stay bright and shiny in a corner of my brain.
Gojirasaurus: self explanatory
Have they exposed them to radiation in an attempt to resurrect them yet?
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This isn’t actually true though. Most dinosaurs have been named in the last 100 years. In fact 85% of them have been named since Jurassic Park came out.
Correct. We are currently in a golden age for unearthing new dinosaurs. Pretty much every week there’s something new that we have found.
Is it actually finding new stuff, though? Or just refining classification methods to better identify what we already had lying around?
the scientific name for gorilla is “gorilla gorilla” so i think that ship sailed before sailing was invented
And American Buffalo are “bison bison.”
I don’t know what it actually means but the scientific name of Indian Cobra is Naja naja and in Hindi “naja” means “Don’t go”, which seems very apt.
An excellent warning sign. Fuck looking at stripes, the Indians get it
Please, dinosaurs today would get 20 year corporate licenses. Arby’s-osaurus Rex; Modelo-dactyl — “for those with the flying spirit”
TriceraX
Now advertising companies would pay to slap the name of their brand on dinosaurs:
- Cocapteryx colacerus
- Teslasaurus muskatus
- Primeraptor amazonii
Don’t give them ideas!
I think it’s less that biologists stopped using Latin and more that we’re running out of Latin
Well then, invent more.
People keep saying it’s a dead language, but I keep seeing it around. Sounds more like a goddamn lazy language to me!
Agreed, Latin needs to start pulling on its bootstraps!
language war intensifies
i think they do.
lots of the newer “scientific” names for stuff are made up latin sounding words.Not to ruin the moment here or anything but this is the first properly funny comment I’ve seen on Lemmy. I used to spend most of my time on Reddit just hunting around for funny comments so I feel like the transition is now complete, so thanks
When they come up with names like ‘Tachymenoides Harrisonfordi’ for a snake that was discovered last year, I think they’ll be fine for a while.
Case in point: Balaur bondoc was named just 13 years ago and its name literally means “chonky dragon”
Jizzasaurass Wrecks
Didn’t they just name like the most distant star ever discovered Godzilla?
Come on, that’s bad ass!
i mean if you think about it godzilla is just ancient mythology except not ancient
in other words its a perfect name
There’s a dinosaur named after Zuul from Ghostbusters.
Full name: Zuul crurivastator, or “Zuul, Destroyer of Shins.”
Brah!ntosaurus. Or maybe Brawndosaurus? Plants got what it craves!
👉’Attasaurus, Rex 👉
🦖🦖🦖
Harambe Erectus
Theres funny names for beetles though
Theres a beetle named after beyonce, iirc
There’s funny names for everything really. There is a gene that scientists named after sonic the hedgehog.
Cause it’s beetles all the way down
They better name a dinosaur after Skuntank!
