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?
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.
An excellent warning sign. Fuck looking at stripes, the Indians get it
Please, dinosaurs today would get 20 year corporate licenses. Arby’s-osaurus Rex; Modelo-dactyl — “for those with the flying spirit”
TriceraX
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!
language war intensifies
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”
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
Jizzasaurass Wrecks
Brah!ntosaurus. Or maybe Brawndosaurus? Plants got what it craves!
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
👉’Attasaurus, Rex 👉
🦖🦖🦖
Theres funny names for beetles though
Theres a beetle named after beyonce, iirc
There’s funny names for everything really. There is a gene that scientists named after sonic the hedgehog.
Cause it’s beetles all the way down
Harambe Erectus
They better name a dinosaur after Skuntank!
