Toes♀ ani.social4Hide 4 repliesGlad to see we're giving up the Latin/Greek naming scheme after a thousand or so years.58Reply
kkernelle replylemmy.world3Hide 3 repliesIt's always "but it comes from the Latin and it means cute fury flying thing". Why not just name it Cute Bee Furry Face and be done with it?41Reply
ThatWeirdGuy1001 replylemmy.world2Hide 2 repliesDoesn't sound as cool imo. Wouldn't have gotten badass names like velociraptor.15Reply
Mommy Longarms replysh.itjust.worksI always wondered what names we would call dinosaurs by if we lived contemporaneously with them.4Reply
mmultifariace lemmy.world1Hide 1 replyI wish I could make a living classifying eukaryotes. Anthophora bellufacium23Reply
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Glad to see we're giving up the Latin/Greek naming scheme after a thousand or so years.
It's always "but it comes from the Latin and it means cute fury flying thing". Why not just name it Cute Bee Furry Face and be done with it?
Doesn't sound as cool imo.
Wouldn't have gotten badass names like velociraptor.
Speed Dragon sounds cool too though
I always wondered what names we would call dinosaurs by if we lived contemporaneously with them.
I wish I could make a living classifying eukaryotes.
Anthophora bellufacium
Hotwheels sisyphus
clearly it is not a rock, mission complete