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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I love stuff like this. Here are some real dinosaur/extinct creature names!

Sauroniops: Literally means Eye of Sauron
Dracorex Hogwartsia: Dragon King of Hogwarts
Thanos Simonattoi: after Thanos
Irritator Challengeri: he was hard to dig up and scientists were angry
Gasosaurus: discovered while a gas company was being built.
Gojirasaurus: self explanatory
Attenborosaurus: plesiosaurus named after David Attenborough.
Crichtonosaurus: similar to an ankylo and named after author of Jurassic Park
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...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

No please keep going

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I haven't heard of any of these and they are fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here’s hoping one of the scientists would be batshit crazy enough to name a new species Biggus Dickus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus.

SILENCE!

[–] Mouselemming 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fortunately, "Dracorex Hogwartsia" turned out to just be a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, not a new species.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gojirasaurus: self explanatory

Have they exposed them to radiation in an attempt to resurrect them yet?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dino McDinoFace

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

FBL, for Fucking Big Lizard.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you like some fries with your McDino?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nah but I'll get some fries that go with that shake

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Please, dinosaurs today would get 20 year corporate licenses. Arby’s-osaurus Rex; Modelo-dactyl — “for those with the flying spirit”

Edit: are they listening to us?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

TriceraX

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct. We are currently in a golden age for unearthing new dinosaurs. Pretty much every week there's something new that we have found.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Is it actually finding new stuff, though? Or just refining classification methods to better identify what we already had lying around?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the scientific name for gorilla is "gorilla gorilla" so i think that ship sailed before sailing was invented

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And American Buffalo are "bison bison."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An excellent warning sign. Fuck looking at stripes, the Indians get it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now advertising companies would pay to slap the name of their brand on dinosaurs:

Cocapteryx colacerus
Teslasaurus muskatus
Primeraptor amazonii

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't give them ideas!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's less that biologists stopped using Latin and more that we're running out of Latin

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, Latin needs to start pulling on its bootstraps!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

language war intensifies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i think they do.
lots of the newer "scientific" names for stuff are made up latin sounding words.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Case in point: Balaur bondoc was named just 13 years ago and its name literally means "chonky dragon"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Brah!ntosaurus. Or maybe Brawndosaurus? Plants got what it craves!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

There's a dinosaur named after Zuul from Ghostbusters.

Full name: Zuul crurivastator, or "Zuul, Destroyer of Shins."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Jizzasaurass Wrecks

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

👉'Attasaurus, Rex 👉

🦖🦖🦖

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Now that's some dank strains. Someone needs to be at out critical mass and blue dream, and I think we found our man... Facelikeapotato, we don't deserve you, but we need you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Harambe Erectus

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Theres funny names for beetles though

Theres a beetle named after beyonce, iirc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's funny names for everything really. There is a gene that scientists named after sonic the hedgehog.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cause it's beetles all the way down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They better name a dinosaur after Skuntank!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's a great Sam o nella video about this.

Invidious link to it: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=XKRW1zgkCVc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Argentinosaurus-> Damn!

[–] pancakes 3 points 1 year ago

Rizz-Rex

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we could continue to speak latin today...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

sic tempori lepidoptera ilit marjoram agrippinae.