Dino McDinoface
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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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.
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.
ChalupaSupremeasaur®
Ugh. lame. My favorite dino is the CrunchwrapSupremeasaur(youknowtheone)TM
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I support this classification
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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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"
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.
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
my 4yo calls em Bigasaurus, and i agree
Dino McDinyface.
I felt the world begin to dumb everything down when the dinosaur I'd always known as Tyrannosaurus Rex, and even as a tiny child I had no problem pronouncing that, became featured in a popular movie and now everyone abbreviates it to T-Rex.
T. Rex is how scientists abbreviate it tho
I was born in 1975. Before the movie Jurassic Park, everyone referred to that dinosaur as "Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Since JP, everyone says "T-Rex."
Why use more syllables when few syllables do trick? It's not like T-Rex is ever ambiguous.
Exactly. Everybody knows that T.Rex Is the stage name for the legendary Marc Bolan, whose biggest hit was Bang a Gong.
I'm ready for that style of language to be passé. But probably the next slang will also be unpleasant.