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cm0002@europe.pub to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

It's a good thing we named most of the dinosaurs like a hundred years ago

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It's a good thing we named most of the dinosaurs like a hundred years ago

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cm0002@europe.pub to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago
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    Dino McDinoface

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    They are finding them, in China, and they still follow th classic naming convention, but the unique parts are Chinese words,

    “Key recent finds (2025–2026) include the *92-foot-long sauropod Tongnanlong zhimingi, the spiky herbivore Haolong dongi, and the 39-foot-long Huashanosaurus qini”

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    Dino McDinoface

    SportsDirect.com @ Chonkosaurus

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    And yet you say it’s a good thing?

  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

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      Great Z list comic villain name

  • Klear@quokk.au
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    There are more dinosaurs discovered (and named) these days than ever before. We’re in the golden age of paleontology.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    It would be kinda cool if newly discovered critters and plants had that modern naming convention for real. It’d sure make it a lot easier to remember the scientific names.

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      Well we are getting now the worst of the both worlds.

      For example Sibon irmelindicaprioae or DiCaprio’s snail-eating snake.

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        The S. irmelindicaprioae is named after Leonardo DiCaprio and his mother Irmelin Indenbirken.

        They get you coming and going.

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        On the plus side, Strigiphilus garylarsoni.

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    my 4yo calls em Bigasaurus, and i agree

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    ChalupaSupremeasaur®

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      Ugh. lame. My favorite dino is the CrunchwrapSupremeasaur(youknowtheone)TM

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      Presented by Taco Bell

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      I support this classification

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    Animals are mostly still given taxonomic names in latin and then a common silly name. So there’s nothing stopping us from calling a stegosaurus Spikey Backy Tailey.

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      deleted by creator

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    Thought this post was going to follow the path of sports stadiums and show gratitude we don’t have an Oraclesaurus brought to you by your boy Larry

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    Dino McDinyface.

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    I would be both OK with and highly amused by scientific names like this. Let’s do it with botany and anatomy too!

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      Orchids would be called “Cunty McCunt Face”

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        Weeping Willows would be called “droopy bois”

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    Or Dracorex hogwartsia.

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    There’s a scene in Jurassic World where the one character basically says this and gives off a bunch of corporate horror names and its so funny to me.

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