the scientific name for gorilla is "gorilla gorilla" so i think that ship sailed before sailing was invented
And American Buffalo are "bison bison."
I don't know what it actually means but the scientific name of Indian Cobra is Naja naja and in Hindi "naja" means "Don't go", which seems very apt.
An excellent warning sign. Fuck looking at stripes, the Indians get it
This isn't actually true though. Most dinosaurs have been named in the last 100 years. In fact 85% of them have been named since Jurassic Park came out.
Correct. We are currently in a golden age for unearthing new dinosaurs. Pretty much every week there's something new that we have found.
Is it actually finding new stuff, though? Or just refining classification methods to better identify what we already had lying around?
Please, dinosaurs today would get 20 year corporate licenses. Arby’s-osaurus Rex; Modelo-dactyl — “for those with the flying spirit”
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Now advertising companies would pay to slap the name of their brand on dinosaurs:
Don't give them ideas!
I think it's less that biologists stopped using Latin and more that we're running out of Latin
Well then, invent more.
People keep saying it's a dead language, but I keep seeing it around. Sounds more like a goddamn lazy language to me!
Agreed, Latin needs to start pulling on its bootstraps!
language war intensifies
i think they do.
lots of the newer "scientific" names for stuff are made up latin sounding words.
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When they come up with names like 'Tachymenoides Harrisonfordi' for a snake that was discovered last year, I think they'll be fine for a while.
Case in point: Balaur bondoc was named just 13 years ago and its name literally means "chonky dragon"
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There's a dinosaur named after Zuul from Ghostbusters.
Full name: Zuul crurivastator, or "Zuul, Destroyer of Shins."
Brah!ntosaurus. Or maybe Brawndosaurus? Plants got what it craves!
Now that's some dank strains. Someone needs to be at out critical mass and blue dream, and I think we found our man... Facelikeapotato, we don't deserve you, but we need you
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Harambe Erectus
Theres funny names for beetles though
Theres a beetle named after beyonce, iirc
There's funny names for everything really. There is a gene that scientists named after sonic the hedgehog.
Cause it's beetles all the way down
They better name a dinosaur after Skuntank!
There's a great Sam o nella video about this.
Invidious link to it: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=XKRW1zgkCVc
Argentinosaurus-> Damn!
Rizz-Rex
we could continue to speak latin today...
sic tempori lepidoptera ilit marjoram agrippinae.
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