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.
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
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
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Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 3y
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...
Sklrtle@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
No please keep going
Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 3y
I haven't heard of any of these and they are fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
sheogorath@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Here’s hoping one of the scientists would be batshit crazy enough to name a new species Biggus Dickus.
amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I have a fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus.
SILENCE!
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y
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.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Fortunately, "Dracorex Hogwartsia" turned out to just be a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, not a new species.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
Have they exposed them to radiation in an attempt to resurrect them yet?
7u5k3n@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 3y
blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social · 21 pts · 3y
FBL, for Fucking Big Lizard.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
Would you like some fries with your McDino?
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
Nah but I'll get some fries that go with that shake
ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee · 42 pts · 3y
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?
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 3y
TriceraX
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 41 pts · 3y
the scientific name for gorilla is "gorilla gorilla" so i think that ship sailed before sailing was invented
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
And American Buffalo are "bison bison."
DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 3y
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.
quicksand@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
An excellent warning sign. Fuck looking at stripes, the Indians get it
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz · 40 pts · 3y
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.
StorminNorman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Correct. We are currently in a golden age for unearthing new dinosaurs. Pretty much every week there's something new that we have found.
audaxdreik@pawb.social · 6 pts · 3y
Is it actually finding new stuff, though? Or just refining classification methods to better identify what we already had lying around?
pH3ra@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 3y
Now advertising companies would pay to slap the name of their brand on dinosaurs:
neanderthal@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Don't give them ideas!
rockerface@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 3y
I think it's less that biologists stopped using Latin and more that we're running out of Latin
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee · 32 pts · 3y
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!
Custoslibera@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Agreed, Latin needs to start pulling on its bootstraps!
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
language war intensifies
oo1@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
i think they do.
lots of the newer "scientific" names for stuff are made up latin sounding words.
scarrtt@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
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
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
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.
lunarul@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
Case in point: Balaur bondoc was named just 13 years ago and its name literally means "chonky dragon"
ivanafterall@kbin.social · 15 pts · 3y
Brah!ntosaurus. Or maybe Brawndosaurus? Plants got what it craves!
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
There's a dinosaur named after Zuul from Ghostbusters.
Full name: Zuul crurivastator, or "Zuul, Destroyer of Shins."
Soundhole@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 3y
Didn't they just name like the most distant star ever discovered Godzilla?
Come on, that's bad ass!
STUPIDVIPGUY@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 3y
i mean if you think about it godzilla is just ancient mythology except not ancient
in other words its a perfect name
thorbot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Jizzasaurass Wrecks
Gork@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y
👉'Attasaurus, Rex 👉
🦖🦖🦖
quicksand@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
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
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 3y
Theres funny names for beetles though
Theres a beetle named after beyonce, iirc
dingus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
There's funny names for everything really. There is a gene that scientists named after sonic the hedgehog.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Cause it's beetles all the way down
CarlsIII@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
Harambe Erectus
Tag365@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
They better name a dinosaur after Skuntank!
gorysubparbagel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
There's a great Sam o nella video about this.
Invidious link to it: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=XKRW1zgkCVc
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Argentinosaurus-> Damn!
pancakes@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Rizz-Rex
kornucopeya@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
we could continue to speak latin today...
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 3y
sic tempori lepidoptera ilit marjoram agrippinae.