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.

ChalupaSupremeasaur®

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

They get you coming and going.

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.

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

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*”

T. Rex is how scientists abbreviate it tho

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.

On the plus side, Strigiphilus garylarsoni.

Why use more syllables when few syllables do trick? It's not like T-Rex is ever ambiguous.

Weeping Willows would be called "droopy bois"

I'm ready for that style of language to be passé. But probably the next slang will also be unpleasant.

Great Z list comic villain name