• Cambrian Fossil With Scissor-Like Claws Is Named "Kooteninchela deppi" For Johnny Depp
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[quote]Academy Awards continue to elude Johnny Depp, but as of today no one can say he hasn’t been immortalized. A 505-million-year-old Cambrian fossil of a creature with scissor-like claws has been named Kooteninchela deppi in honor of Depp’s role as Edward Scissorhands in the movie of the same name.[/quote] [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/cambrian-fossil-scissor-claws-named-johnny-depp[/url]
as if this was anything more than a "huh.. what should we call it" "it's got scissor hands like that one movie" "done"
Well, they have that ancient constricter snake name the Monty's Python, so why the fuck not?
[QUOTE=Parakon;40692357]as if this was anything more than a "huh.. what should we call it" "it's got scissor hands like that one movie" "done"[/QUOTE] Can't scientists have one little bit of fun every once in a while?
There are tons of silly scientific names like this.
[QUOTE=MasterFen007;40692758]Can't scientists have one little bit of fun every once in a while?[/QUOTE] They do all the time. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Hobby]Sometimes they're just lewd about it, too.[/url]
[QUOTE=Paramud;40693242]They do all the time. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Hobby]Sometimes they're just lewd about it, too.[/url][/QUOTE] [quote]It gets its scientific name from its narrow long-flighted wings. This adaptable falcon often shadows the collared sparrow hawk in suburban terrain, benefitting from birds flushed out of dense foliage by the more agile hawk. Prey fleeing cover for the open where they can out fly the sparrowhawk is then taken in a stoop or stoop and chase by the faster falcon. Hobbies have been observed waiting on over sparrowhawk much like a trained falconer's bird would, much to the chagrin of the hawk who will regularly attack the falcon and pursue it in a sometimes spectacular aerial dogfight.[/quote] i must have missed the part where it became logical to call it [I]longipennis[/I]
[QUOTE=Paramud;40693242]They do all the time. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Hobby]Sometimes they're just lewd about it, too.[/url][/QUOTE] More like "[Url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalosaurus#.22Scrotum_humanum.22]Scrotum humanum[/Url]". "Kekeke it looks like a nutsack."
My favourite is [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus]Phallus Impudicus[/url] "Jesus christ this mushroom looks like some nasty penis" And so they named it that way.
Scientific nomenclature is about one of two things, either immortalising yourself in a discovery (like most of my lecturers have), or giving it the lewdest name you can at every corner (like one of my lecturers always does).
[img]http://enviromint.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/bazinga-bee.jpg[/img] this bee is called the Euglossa [b]Bazinga[/b]
my favourite is still that cell in your body called sonic the hedgehog or whatever
[IMG]http://www.technologijos.lt/upload/image/n/mokslas/gamta_ir_biologija/S-33269/nuotrauka-62046/11.jpeg[/IMG] Apparently thats what it looked like. [editline]19th May 2013[/editline] eh, still doesnt have shit on these things [IMG]http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002857135/1518272721_sea_scorpion_answer_102_xlarge.jpeg[/IMG]
Most Cambrian animals had a pretty big "WHUAAA" factor.
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;40694820][IMG]http://www.technologijos.lt/upload/image/n/mokslas/gamta_ir_biologija/S-33269/nuotrauka-62046/11.jpeg[/IMG] Apparently thats what it looked like. [editline]19th May 2013[/editline] eh, still doesnt have shit on these things [IMG]http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002857135/1518272721_sea_scorpion_answer_102_xlarge.jpeg[/IMG][/QUOTE] good thing I wasn't alive 505 million years ago
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