• @Shelbyeileen
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    791 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…

    • @Sklrtle
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      161 year ago

      No please keep going

    • FacelikeapotatoOP
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      131 year ago

      I haven’t heard of any of these and they are fantastic! Thank you for sharing.

    • @sheogorath
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      1 year ago

      Here’s hoping one of the scientists would be batshit crazy enough to name a new species Biggus Dickus.

      • @amanaftermidnight
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        1 year ago

        I have a fwiend in Wome called Biggus Dickus.

        SILENCE!

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      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.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      51 year ago

      Fortunately, “Dracorex Hogwartsia” turned out to just be a juvenile Pachycephalosaurus, not a new species.

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      11 year ago

      Gojirasaurus: self explanatory

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