We give a lot of grief to dinosaurs with dumb boring names like Australotitan or even dumber stupid names like Thanos. But I think it’s time to point some appreciation towards dinosaur names that are just, so good, man.
Like, take Galeamopus. Pretty standard-sounding Latin name there but nope, turns out the authors were on some insane 4th-dimensional chess nonsense with this name.
Galeamopus comes from galeam (helmet) and opus (need), and basically means “needs a helmet” because the braincase of the skull is quite fragile. Now, that on its own is a fun enough name and would probably be a favourite of mine anyway!
But that wasn’t good enough for Tschopp et al. (2015). No, because see the original specimen was discovered by William Utterback in 1902 and described as a species of Diplodocus by William Holland in 1906. Two Williams involved in the history of this dinosaur, neat!
Now, for totally unrelated reasons, let’s take a look at the etymology of the name William:
Bravo
