Aug 30, 2022 · This is probably my favorite example of an oddly named dinosaur, but I sure can sympathize with the scientists who awarded it its name

Most dinosaurs are called popularly by the name of their genus, which is always in Latin. "Saurus" is Latin for lizard, "don" is Latin for tooth, and "us" is just a typical Latin singular suffix. So for example, …

The paleontologist had probably been workshoping new dinosaur names since he was six, hit on one that he loved as an edgy fourteen year old and then just never let it go. The fossil they found didn't …

Nov 9, 2023 · I’m writing a science fiction story where my human characters interact with Hell Creek fauna. I’ve given a lot of them contemporary names, but sometimes I have characters mention the …

Hey r/Dinosaurs! I'm gathering song titles for a metal album with a running theme of all the names being the scientific of dinosaurs and other long extinct organisms. I've been picking out the coolest ones …

Jun 25, 2022 · When should dinosaur names be capitalized in stories? Okay, bit of a weird question. I’m proofreading a fanfiction based on the show ‘Camp Cretaceous’, and I’m trying to figure out when the …

Thanks! I got way into creating common names for extinct species after doing some world building for a DND game that essentially boiled down to Cowboys and Dinosaurs. What helped a lot was just …

That said, my favourite extinct animal scientific names have to be two mammals rather than dinosaurs: Megistotherium osteothlastes (“bone-crushing giant/greatest beast”, which basically tells you what …

Jun 19, 2022 · Why do dinosaurs not have "common names"? I mean, especially with dinosaurs being so heavily invested in pop culture, you'd think scientists or someone else would start calling them by …

Jun 27, 2023 · In the storyboard of the kitchen scene the Velociraptor puppeteers are listed as Kim and Randy, but the names have since been attributed to the raptors.