• New dinosaur discovered, the Dreadnoughtus Schrani (no joke)
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[QUOTE=Rebi;45893763]Are those supposed to be people on its back?[/QUOTE] birds.
[QUOTE=Shogoll;45894039][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphophallus_titanum[/url] scientific fucks given: 0[/QUOTE] so its name is literally "giant malformed dick"?
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Discovered just in time for Jurassic Park 4!
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;45894259]so its name is literally "giant malformed dick"?[/QUOTE] [quote]Clitoria ternatea, common names including butterfly-pea, blue-pea, and cordofan-pea, is a plant species belonging to the Fabaceae family. The flowers of this vine have the shape of human female genitals, hence the Latin name of the genus "Clitoria", from "clitoris".[/quote] [quote]Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), occurring mainly in Europe and Northwest Africa, and ranging as far as Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang.[1] The name is from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις orchis, meaning "testicle", from the appearance of the paired subterranean tuberoids.[/quote] [quote]Aha ha is a species of Australian wasp, named by the entomologist Arnold Menke in 1977 as a joke. Menke described how, when he received a package from a colleague containing insect specimens, he exclaimed "Aha!".[1] The name was also used as the vehicle registration plate of Menke's car.[2][/quote] [quote]Oedipina complex (common name: Gamboa worm salamander) is a species of lungless salamander found in western South America from Costa Rica to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.[/quote] [quote]Megalosaurus (meaning "Great Lizard", from Greek μέγας/megas meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and σαυρος/sauros meaning 'lizard') is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period (Bathonian stage, 166 million years ago) of Southern England... The first scientific name given for it, in the 18th century, was [b]Scrotum humanum[/b], created by Richard Brookes as a caption; today, this is not considered valid, however.[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6035324/Scrotum_humanum.jpg[/img][/quote] Basically scientists name species whatever they feel like at the time and so the meaning of the name shouldn't be taken all that seriously
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