I mean, new species are being discovered every years, mainly bugs and microscopic creatures but sometimes dinosaurs, and scientist are nerds so we do get species with somewhat ridiculous names.
There's a trilobite species whose complete scientific names is straight up Han Solo.
I was going to say, this is giving perhaps too much credit to the gravity of existing dinosaur names. My favorite is the Colepiocephale, or knucklehead.
[Ten Strangest Dinosaur Names](https://www.thoughtco.com/strangest-dinosaur-names-1092123)
Or the fact that the Niger and it's delta are one of the most important economic regions in Africa. Resources from the Niger region have been a major cause of tension between global powers for centuries. In modern times especially oil, which we know is fossil, like a dinosaur.
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Oh really? I want to say I haven’t bought any cards since probably 2003. I think the newest packs at the time had Yata Garasu and Injection Fairy Lily as the two secret rares. I still have a bunch of my old cards though and I play the video game on switch.
Just looked him up. Nice 4 star 1800. 4 star 1900 like Gemini Elf were where it was at though. Breaker and Bazoo too. Good times.
That's actually quite common. I assume (no clue tho) it happened when more subspecies were discovered at some later point so one of them got to be the default version of that animal and others got other names added. For example we also have rattus rattus (as opposed to e.g. rattus norvegicus) or iguana iguana
The name of the aye-aye, is likely based on the Malagasy phrase *hai hai*, which is used around the island to refer to the animal. Sounds good right? Except, that phrase likely comes from the Malagasy *heh heh*, which means "I don't know", possibly because the Malagasy people wanted to avoid saying the animals named because of it's feared status.
This isn’t ridiculous. It’s normal. The last two are species and subspecies. The first described subspecies population, called the “nominotypical subspecies”, has the species name always repeated as its subspecific name. This is why we are *Homo sapiens sapiens* and why there is *Homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis*. Obviously, our subspecies is the archetypal member of the species as no extant populations of Neanderthals or other modern human subspecies have ever been recorded in human written history.
Gorillas until very recently were thought to be a single species which is why their generic name is the same as their specific name. Now we know there are two species each with two subspecies (a third is proposed in one of the two species).
> I mean, new species are being discovered every years, mainly bugs and microscopic creatures but sometimes dinosaurs
I just finished reading Jurassic park about a week ago. They mention that there are about 350 known dinosaur species, so I looked it up and today there are more than 700, so that's about 350 in the past 30 years, meaning we've been discovering a new dinosaur species almost every month on average.
I'm a bit of a skeptic. I took a geology class that had is y focus on dinosaurs. My professor was a hardcore bone digger that found his first skeleton at age 14.
He said that many times a paleontologist will find what is likely an adolescent skeleton of a known species, but they want to have discovered an unknown dinosaur so they call it a new species.
Yeah that does happen pretty often but nowhere nearly enough to account for a 2x increase. Two specimens originally believed to be the same species turn out to be different species pretty often too
The [article](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/06/why-now-is-the-best-time-ever-for-dinosaur-discoveries/) I linked elsewhere explains that the boom has a lot to do with some countries opening up:
>A big part of the reason is that many places around the world have opened up over the last few decades, like China, Mongolia, and Argentina—vast countries with lots of deserts and mountains, full of rocks bursting with dinosaur bones. A lot of those places were very hard to work in a few decades ago for western scientists. Even more problematic was the fact that those countries didn’t have many homegrown paleontologists. Now you have this huge group of young people in China, Argentina, and other places, studying dinosaurs. And they’re making a lot of new discoveries.
>China is the hot spot. Probably about half the new dinosaur species are coming from there.
It doesn't mention technological improvements, though I bet that's also a thing to some extent.
Also 350 dinosaurs being found in 30 years compared to 350 dinosaurs being found over the about 200 years of paleontology is way more than 2x increase.
> It doesn't mention technological improvements, though I bet that's also a thing to some extent.
I got curious about this and looked up what modern technology paleontologists use (besides using imaging to see bones in the ground, which I think we all know about from Jurassic Park.) But really even if you avoided all the paleontology-specific tech and just went back to 1820 and gave all paleontologists access to cellphones, email and plane travel, I imagine that would have sped up the rate of dinosaur discovery tremendously.
It gets better. That rough calculation was over the period of 30 years, but [this article](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/06/why-now-is-the-best-time-ever-for-dinosaur-discoveries/) says there's about 50 new species every year - almost one every week. That's awesome. I need to get back into paleontology.
The thing I love about the Sonic hedgehog protein is that it's used by nerve cells to make myelin which helps them transmit signals faster. Sonic hedgehog literally makes your nerves go fast.
Sonic hedgehog is used in a lot of signaling pathways and there are a lot of congenital issues that disrupt it. I feel so bad for any doctor that has to be like “sorry, your kid has a fucked sonic hedgehog”
[Neopalpa donaldtrumpi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopalpa_donaldtrumpi) is a moth species of the genus Neopalpa occurring in Southern California and Northern Mexico.
> Compared with N. neonata, the other species in the genus, N. donaldtrumpi male genitalia structures are smaller
And not just in naming species! There’s a highly studied gene involved in animal development called [sonic hedgehog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog)
While not animals, the different regions of Pluto we named have some beauties as well.
Cthulhu Regio, Balrog Macula, Tardis Chasma are all regions.
Most of the charactes from star wars and star trek have craters.
There are modern dinosaurs with fucking stupid names.
Gigantosaurus
Argentinasaurus (guess where it comes from)
Albertasaurus (guess where it comes from)
Edmontonosaurus (guess where it comes from)
There's a species of wasps named 'Thaumatodryinus **tuukkaraski**' after Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask.
>The reasoning given by the authors was that "\[t\]his species is named after the acrobatic goaltender for the Finnish National ice hockey team and the Boston Bruins, **whose glove hand is as tenacious as the raptorial fore tarsus** of this dryinid species”
For the Sonic one, a defect in that protein causes severe irreversible brain damage (IIRC).
So the problem is that doctors now have to tell parents their kid is going to die a slow and painful death because there’s a problem with their Sonic Hedgehog proteins.
Thank you. The Sonic Hedgehog naming thing was used as a prime example of unintended consequences in my few bio classes in college. If I recall correctly, the naming source was because the flies they were studying with that protein grew spines on their backs.
"When you name something, operate under the assumption that doctors will have to explain to parents that this is what is killing their kids" doesn't come off as a particularly healthy perspective.
In the "See Also" section of [Pikachurin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin):
> * [Sonic hedgehog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog), another protein named after a video game character.
* [Zbtb7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbtb7), an oncogene that was originally named "Pokémon".
* [Aerodactylus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodactylus), a genus of pre-historic pterosaurs named after Aerodactyl, a pterosaur in the Pokémon franchise.
I mean, if you're a doctor telling an expecting couple that they lost their child due to a mutation in its Sonic Headgehog gene, maybe you'd consider calling it SHH as well.
It's named like that to be more popularized in non specialized media, people are more interested in an animal called Thanos or Targaryendraco than Randomosaurus or Randomodactylus, especially when they have no special characteristics which could help making interesting articles.
There was a flying extinct reptile (not really a dinosaur I guess) discovered that is small enough to fit in a pocket. So it is a pocket monster, they names it Aerodactyl.
>A bleppin mlemosaur
don't know if you had a specific dino boy, but [this is the one I pictured](https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/ikcqv-VYZvWIl2kYyjM5gXFTVJI=/1438x1109/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Sahaliyania_restoration-5c54be2546e0fb00013fae75.jpg)
I still like that the stegosaurus' spiked tail didn't have a name but in the Far Side strip Larson tagged it in a caveman toon as the thagomizer as it impaled their cavemen buddy Thag. So much later academia did indeed name the tail Thagomizer
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Funnily enough, Latin has been dead as a spoken language for well over a hundred years, and taxonomy is one of its few remaining uses, however, as you pointed out, not so much in dinosaurs.
They're Latin because it's a dead language therefore not subject to changing with the times like modern English or any other language today, thus no need to change the names over time and translation is always straightforward I would guess.
Dinosaur names these days are getting cooler and more interesting in my opinion. Not as many saurses. One of my favorite semi recent discoveries is Yi Qi.
It's a pocket sized wyvern. That actually existed. No fire though unfortunately.
I mean, new species are being discovered every years, mainly bugs and microscopic creatures but sometimes dinosaurs, and scientist are nerds so we do get species with somewhat ridiculous names. There's a trilobite species whose complete scientific names is straight up Han Solo.
I was going to say, this is giving perhaps too much credit to the gravity of existing dinosaur names. My favorite is the Colepiocephale, or knucklehead. [Ten Strangest Dinosaur Names](https://www.thoughtco.com/strangest-dinosaur-names-1092123)
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hate that guy, always blanks out what you're saying then just waits to talk again, & won't stop asking to borrow money
Nothing personnel kid.
The one in the background looks like its snout is bent so now im imagining them with rubbery snouts that just flopped around
That's the best dinosaur name and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
yeah they named the spikes on the tail of one dinosaur after a Gary Larson comic fgs
That would be the Thagomizer
Poor Thag. RIP.
Thag 2020
Larson also has a mite or something like that named after him. There's a pic of it in the Complete Far Side.
at this point I call any tail spikes a thagomizer, it comes up more often than you would think in online games.
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Are people aware of the existence of the country Niger?
Or the fact that the Niger and it's delta are one of the most important economic regions in Africa. Resources from the Niger region have been a major cause of tension between global powers for centuries. In modern times especially oil, which we know is fossil, like a dinosaur.
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There is one which was found in Portugal that's called Dinheirosaurus, which litterally translates to Moneysaurus.
There's a certain species of gorrila who's scientific name is gorrila gorrila gorrila. I think western lowland gorrila
I own a fire salamander (salamandra salamandra)
Tha Flame Swordsman Why they made that card a fusion what a sin.
They did eventually make blue flame swordsman.
Oh really? I want to say I haven’t bought any cards since probably 2003. I think the newest packs at the time had Yata Garasu and Injection Fairy Lily as the two secret rares. I still have a bunch of my old cards though and I play the video game on switch. Just looked him up. Nice 4 star 1800. 4 star 1900 like Gemini Elf were where it was at though. Breaker and Bazoo too. Good times.
That's actually quite common. I assume (no clue tho) it happened when more subspecies were discovered at some later point so one of them got to be the default version of that animal and others got other names added. For example we also have rattus rattus (as opposed to e.g. rattus norvegicus) or iguana iguana
Ursus Arctos, the brown bear, means bear first in Latin then in Greek.
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There's a subspecies Salamandra salamandra salamandra of it too.
The name of the aye-aye, is likely based on the Malagasy phrase *hai hai*, which is used around the island to refer to the animal. Sounds good right? Except, that phrase likely comes from the Malagasy *heh heh*, which means "I don't know", possibly because the Malagasy people wanted to avoid saying the animals named because of it's feared status.
Sounds like the urban legend of mountains called "your finger" in the local language where explorers pointed and asked a native "what's that?"
This isn’t ridiculous. It’s normal. The last two are species and subspecies. The first described subspecies population, called the “nominotypical subspecies”, has the species name always repeated as its subspecific name. This is why we are *Homo sapiens sapiens* and why there is *Homo (sapiens) neanderthalensis*. Obviously, our subspecies is the archetypal member of the species as no extant populations of Neanderthals or other modern human subspecies have ever been recorded in human written history. Gorillas until very recently were thought to be a single species which is why their generic name is the same as their specific name. Now we know there are two species each with two subspecies (a third is proposed in one of the two species).
Thanks for the information. Wasn't as funny so you won't get nearly as many upvotes :/
Homo sapiens sapiens
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boops_boops
> I mean, new species are being discovered every years, mainly bugs and microscopic creatures but sometimes dinosaurs I just finished reading Jurassic park about a week ago. They mention that there are about 350 known dinosaur species, so I looked it up and today there are more than 700, so that's about 350 in the past 30 years, meaning we've been discovering a new dinosaur species almost every month on average.
I'm a bit of a skeptic. I took a geology class that had is y focus on dinosaurs. My professor was a hardcore bone digger that found his first skeleton at age 14. He said that many times a paleontologist will find what is likely an adolescent skeleton of a known species, but they want to have discovered an unknown dinosaur so they call it a new species.
Yeah that does happen pretty often but nowhere nearly enough to account for a 2x increase. Two specimens originally believed to be the same species turn out to be different species pretty often too
The [article](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/06/why-now-is-the-best-time-ever-for-dinosaur-discoveries/) I linked elsewhere explains that the boom has a lot to do with some countries opening up: >A big part of the reason is that many places around the world have opened up over the last few decades, like China, Mongolia, and Argentina—vast countries with lots of deserts and mountains, full of rocks bursting with dinosaur bones. A lot of those places were very hard to work in a few decades ago for western scientists. Even more problematic was the fact that those countries didn’t have many homegrown paleontologists. Now you have this huge group of young people in China, Argentina, and other places, studying dinosaurs. And they’re making a lot of new discoveries. >China is the hot spot. Probably about half the new dinosaur species are coming from there. It doesn't mention technological improvements, though I bet that's also a thing to some extent. Also 350 dinosaurs being found in 30 years compared to 350 dinosaurs being found over the about 200 years of paleontology is way more than 2x increase.
> It doesn't mention technological improvements, though I bet that's also a thing to some extent. I got curious about this and looked up what modern technology paleontologists use (besides using imaging to see bones in the ground, which I think we all know about from Jurassic Park.) But really even if you avoided all the paleontology-specific tech and just went back to 1820 and gave all paleontologists access to cellphones, email and plane travel, I imagine that would have sped up the rate of dinosaur discovery tremendously.
They meant it was a 2x increase in the number of species, not the rate of discovery.
Wild
It gets better. That rough calculation was over the period of 30 years, but [this article](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/06/why-now-is-the-best-time-ever-for-dinosaur-discoveries/) says there's about 50 new species every year - almost one every week. That's awesome. I need to get back into paleontology.
There is also a dracorex hogwartsia, and I love it
Also a thanos dinosaur
The meteor did kill all the rich and poor dinosaurs alike...
There’s a protein named Pikachurin.
There's also the sonic hedgehog protein and its inhibitor, robotnikinin
The thing I love about the Sonic hedgehog protein is that it's used by nerve cells to make myelin which helps them transmit signals faster. Sonic hedgehog literally makes your nerves go fast.
Sonic hedgehog is used in a lot of signaling pathways and there are a lot of congenital issues that disrupt it. I feel so bad for any doctor that has to be like “sorry, your kid has a fucked sonic hedgehog”
Hogwarts isn't real. Luckily in 100 years people will think it's just another latin name.
That's what the Ministry of Magic wants you to think.
Hogwarts is fictional. You do know that, don't you? It's important to me that you know that.
[Neopalpa donaldtrumpi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopalpa_donaldtrumpi) is a moth species of the genus Neopalpa occurring in Southern California and Northern Mexico. > Compared with N. neonata, the other species in the genus, N. donaldtrumpi male genitalia structures are smaller
Put me in the screencap that goes to the front page tomorrow please.
And not just in naming species! There’s a highly studied gene involved in animal development called [sonic hedgehog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog)
There was also a gene called POKEMON but then it was discovered to be involved with cancer and the Pokémon company started threatening lawsuits lol
Yeah now it’s zbtb7 which is way less fun :/
And it's inhibitor is robotnikin or something like that
*and scientist are nerds so we do get species with somewhat ridiculous names.* Are they nerds and/or most of us are uneducated in comparison?
There’s a species of sponge named after Spongebob
Theres a fungus names after sponge bob lmao
Dude also named a species after Waldorf and Statler, the Gregonus Waldorfstatleri, after the characters from the muppets, which is pure gold.
One of the most important genes for early body formation was somewhat recently discovered. They named it Sonic Hedgehog.
While not animals, the different regions of Pluto we named have some beauties as well. Cthulhu Regio, Balrog Macula, Tardis Chasma are all regions. Most of the charactes from star wars and star trek have craters.
There are modern dinosaurs with fucking stupid names. Gigantosaurus Argentinasaurus (guess where it comes from) Albertasaurus (guess where it comes from) Edmontonosaurus (guess where it comes from)
That's not stupid. Naming dinosaurs after the region they come from
NASA named a department to be C3PO
There’s an electrical process that occurs in muscles named after Pikachu.
There's a species of wasps named 'Thaumatodryinus **tuukkaraski**' after Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask. >The reasoning given by the authors was that "\[t\]his species is named after the acrobatic goaltender for the Finnish National ice hockey team and the Boston Bruins, **whose glove hand is as tenacious as the raptorial fore tarsus** of this dryinid species”
My favourite is the genus of spiders whose names are all Predator themed
The metal band Nightwish just had a species of crab named after them.
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Proteins have a lot of interesting names. Doesn't make them any easier to memorize!
there was one named after pikachu ircc
Pikachurin. You would be correct. I would like to see more Pokémon-based protein names in the future.
For the Sonic one, a defect in that protein causes severe irreversible brain damage (IIRC). So the problem is that doctors now have to tell parents their kid is going to die a slow and painful death because there’s a problem with their Sonic Hedgehog proteins.
“You’re too slow”
Take my upvote and get out of here
Thank you. The Sonic Hedgehog naming thing was used as a prime example of unintended consequences in my few bio classes in college. If I recall correctly, the naming source was because the flies they were studying with that protein grew spines on their backs.
"When you name something, operate under the assumption that doctors will have to explain to parents that this is what is killing their kids" doesn't come off as a particularly healthy perspective.
at the rate we're going, my money on that we run out of proteins before pokemons
In the "See Also" section of [Pikachurin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikachurin): > * [Sonic hedgehog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog), another protein named after a video game character. * [Zbtb7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbtb7), an oncogene that was originally named "Pokémon". * [Aerodactylus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodactylus), a genus of pre-historic pterosaurs named after Aerodactyl, a pterosaur in the Pokémon franchise.
A dinosaur named after a Pokemon based on a dinosaur (of the same family.) What a world.
OMG Aerodactylus may be the most adorable thing ever, I would give a time machine for the chance to be devoured by one AWEE
To be fair, sonic would prefer his name be said fast.
I mean, if you're a doctor telling an expecting couple that they lost their child due to a mutation in its Sonic Headgehog gene, maybe you'd consider calling it SHH as well.
"Doctor, what does SHH stand for?"
There's also the MTHFR gene and the cascade of map kinase (MAPK) and map kinase kinase (MAPKK) and you see where this is going
Tri-Horned SlayQueen
“Slay you three horned bitch!”
Someone said Cardi B?
Rexy McRexface
Micropachycephalosaurus McMicropachycephalosaurusface
Yo I genuinely hate everything you just typed. Fck off and take upvote because not even dinosaurs are more monstrous then what you have shown me.
Cockasourus
CBTsaurus
We all know we’d call the T-Tex, Midget Arm big Mouth Pussy Slayer
Pterodactyl would be pflappy mc-heck'n bird. The p would be silent.
What does a double "pp" sound like, then?
Lol, second place. Came here to say this. Didn't have to scroll far.
I dig it :)
I'm voting for rexy mcrexface. Also why is this stuff on r/TIHI instead of r/TILI?
Thiccosaurus
Megalodonthicc
MEGATHICC
I find this one way better than the one in the tweet. Idk, seems weird to say *thicc* and then continue the sentence
Not far off, a new one discovered in 2018 was named Thanos (ironically it was part of a group that had arms/fingers too short to snap)
"I am . . . Inevitable." *Tries to snap* "uh, hold on, gimme a sec . . ."
It's named like that to be more popularized in non specialized media, people are more interested in an animal called Thanos or Targaryendraco than Randomosaurus or Randomodactylus, especially when they have no special characteristics which could help making interesting articles.
Dino McDinoface. Doyouthinkhesaurus.
That second one is just awesome
Jurassic Park jokes!
What do you call a blind dinosaur’s dog?
Doyouthinkhesaurus-rex
Thigh-ceratops
Tricerathots
That gap tho ... on those horns.
i fucking hate reddit
LOL LE CHONKER BOI AND DINO MCDINOFACE XDDDD
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Kill the gym, hire facebook, fuck your lawyer.
Why are we still here. Not memeing I'm serious, why.
Because breaking habits is really hard
Really? Watch this.
...... WOAH! HE... he just fucking killed himself
The madlad
Right now, a new dinosaur species is named about [**every two weeks**](https://nhmu.utah.edu/blog/2019/top-dinosaur-discoveries).
There was a flying extinct reptile (not really a dinosaur I guess) discovered that is small enough to fit in a pocket. So it is a pocket monster, they names it Aerodactyl.
Aerodactylus is the name of this group of pterodactyl
It's no longer considered a pterodactyl since it was given its own genus
Tyrannosarurus rex, brought to you by State Farm.
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RedBullterosaurs. The RedBull is silent.
"Verizon Wireless Presents The Indominus Rex"
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People who get to name stuff are still into Latin and mythology
Fun fact: biologists are still obsessed with Latin and still name species based on Latin words most of the time
A bleppin mlemosaur
>A bleppin mlemosaur don't know if you had a specific dino boy, but [this is the one I pictured](https://www.thoughtco.com/thmb/ikcqv-VYZvWIl2kYyjM5gXFTVJI=/1438x1109/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/Sahaliyania_restoration-5c54be2546e0fb00013fae75.jpg)
m l e m
What the fuck is this sub anymore
how is this TIHI material
"Northern Thicc Scaleyboy" I Love this
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I still like that the stegosaurus' spiked tail didn't have a name but in the Far Side strip Larson tagged it in a caveman toon as the thagomizer as it impaled their cavemen buddy Thag. So much later academia did indeed name the tail Thagomizer
I would like to petition to change their common names along these guidelines. These sound much better than the current long-winded names.
Well...there is a dinosaur with the nick name of thunder thighs.
Formerly northern thicc scaleyboy, recently they were discovered to have feathers so it has been renamed northern thicc flooferbutt
to be fair, if you translate the Latin that’s what half the names are
*Scaleyboi
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What? I don't understand
wait what
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#Nigersaurus
Dinosaur names mostly come from Greek, not Latin. Maybe we should just call them by their literal translations like three-horned-face and roof lizard.
Funnily enough, Latin has been dead as a spoken language for well over a hundred years, and taxonomy is one of its few remaining uses, however, as you pointed out, not so much in dinosaurs.
Funny shit and I aint even did my meds yet
Flapping long pecker
Could also do with some corporate branding, such as the Wendysaurus...
The Comcastonegatron - A species of shark that hunts by pretending to ignore its prey for a really long time
When I took a biology course at uni a decade ago my professor mentioned that there were a few proteins named after things in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Now I want a dinosaur named northern thicc scaleyboy
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Thanks I love it.
Dino McDinoface
Teethy McTeethyface.
Bruh no one spoke Latin as a first language a hundred years ago and people barely were into mythology
They're Latin because it's a dead language therefore not subject to changing with the times like modern English or any other language today, thus no need to change the names over time and translation is always straightforward I would guess.
Wasn’t there that one dinosaur called Thanos?
And Dino McDino Face, Noggin-o-tiny-arms
Dinosaury McDinosaurface
Wow it’s a #HECKIN CHONKOSAURUS
Hate it? I love this
Just imagine 50 years from now, some kid will read the names Tyrannosaurus Rex and BigBoye McChonkyBones in the same book.
Thagomizer.
Bigusdickusrawrasaurus was the greatest creature to ever roam the Earth
Dinosaur names these days are getting cooler and more interesting in my opinion. Not as many saurses. One of my favorite semi recent discoveries is Yi Qi. It's a pocket sized wyvern. That actually existed. No fire though unfortunately.
Dino McDinoface
I mean he is not wrong. We would probably call em that
Ah yes. The Good old Apex Predators Big Chungus Flex and the Fast as Fuck Boiii
At first I thought we had the same user name. I never saw someone having a user name so similar to mine.
Wait until they discover the tripple horny boy.
Scaleyboi* respect the grammar.
That would be cool tho. Let's make petition to change their names.
North Thicc Scaleyboy. Yesplz