• Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world
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    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…

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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.

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

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

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

    • Cocapteryx colacerus
    • Teslasaurus muskatus
    • Primeraptor amazonii
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    Case in point: Balaur bondoc was named just 13 years ago and its name literally means “chonky dragon”

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    There’s a dinosaur named after Zuul from Ghostbusters.

    Full name: Zuul crurivastator, or “Zuul, Destroyer of Shins.”

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    Didn’t they just name like the most distant star ever discovered Godzilla?

    Come on, that’s bad ass!

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      i mean if you think about it godzilla is just ancient mythology except not ancient

      in other words its a perfect name

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    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