Chonkasaurus

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...

No please keep going
I haven't heard of any of these and they are fantastic! Thank you for sharing.
Here’s hoping one of the scientists would be batshit crazy enough to name a new species Biggus Dickus.
- I have a fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus.
  
  SILENCE!
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.
Fortunately, "Dracorex Hogwartsia" turned out to just be a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, not a new species.
Gojirasaurus: self explanatory

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

Dino McDinoFace

FBL, for Fucking Big Lizard.
Would you like some fries with your McDino?
- Nah but I'll get some fries that go with that shake

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?

TriceraX

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

And American Buffalo are "bison bison."
- 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.
- Is it actually finding new stuff, though? Or just refining classification methods to better identify what we already had lying around?

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

Cocapteryx colacerus
Teslasaurus muskatus
Primeraptor amazonii

Don't give them ideas!

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

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!
- Agreed, Latin needs to start pulling on its bootstraps!
- i think they do.
  lots of the newer "scientific" names for stuff are made up latin sounding words.
- 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
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.

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

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

There's a dinosaur named after Zuul from Ghostbusters.

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

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

Come on, that's bad ass!

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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