Dino McDinoface
And yet you say it’s a good thing?
There are more dinosaurs discovered (and named) these days than ever before. We’re in the golden age of paleontology.
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.
Well we are getting now the worst of the both worlds.
For example Sibon irmelindicaprioae or DiCaprio’s snail-eating snake.
The S. irmelindicaprioae is named after Leonardo DiCaprio and his mother Irmelin Indenbirken.
They get you coming and going.
On the plus side, Strigiphilus garylarsoni.
Great Z list comic villain name
ChalupaSupremeasaur®
Ugh. lame. My favorite dino is the CrunchwrapSupremeasaur(youknowtheone)TM
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I support this classification
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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I would be both OK with and highly amused by scientific names like this. Let’s do it with botany and anatomy too!
Orchids would be called “Cunty McCunt Face”
Weeping Willows would be called “droopy bois”
my 4yo calls em Bigasaurus, and i agree
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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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.
Dino McDinyface.
I’m ready for that style of language to be passé. But probably the next slang will also be unpleasant.
