• Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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…