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…
Here’s hoping one of the scientists would be batshit crazy enough to name a new species Biggus Dickus.
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Please, dinosaurs today would get 20 year corporate licenses. Arby’s-osaurus Rex; Modelo-dactyl — “for those with the flying spirit”
the scientific name for gorilla is “gorilla gorilla” so i think that ship sailed before sailing was invented
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.
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.
