Most inappropriate/fun/silly scientific names in Palaeontology

Fun thread :>

Here's the ones I remember;

Protosphyraena, a sword-fish look-alike from the Late Cretaceous period; the name means "early barracuda", despite it being unrelated to barracudas (it was also not related to swordfish despite its appearance)



Megarachne, a short bodied eurypterid ("sea scorpion") was at first thought to be the largest spider known from prehistory, hence the name. This is what Megarachne actually looked like:



Palorchestes was a tapir-wombat-like animal from the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene of Australia, its name means "ancient leaper" or "ancient dancer" despite it being a big fat hulk of a beast. The name was given by Sir Richard Owen who thought Palorchestes was a giant kangaroo.



Struthiosaurus was an ankylosaur (tank-like dinosaur), but its name means "ostrich lizard"...



As for fun names, there's Ninjemys, a Pleistocene Australian turtle, and yes, it does mean "ninja turtle".



There's Montypythonoides, a giant prehistoric snake named after, well, Monty Python, although the name is no longer used; it was replaced by Morelia riversleighensis, as it was found that it was too similar to modern day Morelia pythons and likely belonged to the same genus. (Morelia viridis in the pic)



And of course, there's this bizarre tribute to Jurassic Park that's Tianchisaurus nedegoapeferima. The specific name honors the main Jurassic Park actors (Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, Ariana Richards and Martin Ferrero. Notice how everyone forgot about Dennis Nedry...)
Tianchisaurus was originally called Jurassosaurus (after Jurassic Park!) but it was later changed.



Finally, there's one of my least favorite dinosaur names, Bambiraptor. The only worst thing they could have done would be to name a tyrannosaur "Winniethepoohsaurus".
Fortunately, it was recently found that Bambiraptor is most likely a juvenile Saurornitholestes.



There's many more but I can´t remember just now... but people, let's not forget the most inappropiate, fun and silly name in the history of everything!

Homo sapiens?? Seriously??





But that, of course, is not paleontology...

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