Glad someone said it before me. I first learned about scrotum humanum from the guy who named Irritator challengeri, who was all too eager to talk about vulgar names...
There's a species of frog that was discovered in Colombia and was named Allobates Niputidea. The name comes from the Spanish expression "Ni puta idea" which means No f*cking clue because they weren't sure how to name it.
Actually, their justification is even funnier. It reads “it’s the common saying in spannish taxonomist use when reviewing small, brown frogs like the one presented here” or something among those lines
Reminds me of an argument between Tarzan and the bad guy from the movie when he’s trying to teach Tarzan English and ascertain the location of the gorillas.
My biggest issue with video game creature names is that they are far too helpful and descriptive. Even assuming biologists didn't get to this exoplanet first, earth's common animal names include "forest man", "weaver in yellow jacket", and of course the "iunno". If biologists DID get there first, we'd have a whole new planet of "horrible bear bear", "I don't know what lizard this is but I found it in Mongolia", and "weird shrimp thing I named after my pal".
Special shout-out to the American robin, because the Latin name’s meaning is perfectly fine (translates to “migratory thrush”) but _Turdus migratorius_ sounds like it was chosen by a bunch of middle schoolers
Tordo is still the name for that kind of bird in Italian (the latin S was retracted like in soanish, and so at the end of syllables/words it often turned into an approximant like if does in many variants of spanish, like cuban spanish; and the vowels split from 5 vowels with two variants each to 7 individual vowels, giving short u > o)
Bruh naming skunks after a goddess of poison gas isn't sucky it is METAL. Also linguists should be forbidden from making jokes about "labia" sounding lewd, on punishment of being forbidden from using bilabial or labiodental consonants for a week.
“Parapropalaehoplophorus”, a species of glyptodont is one of my favorites. It’s named after “Propalaehoplophorus”, a species of glyptodont named after “Palaehoplophorus”, a species of glyptodont named after “Hoplophorus”. Interestingly, all four seem to not be that closely related.
Mini mum, Mini ature, and Mini scule. All frogs discovered by one guy. They sure are mini :] maybe not the worst Latin name but the guy who brought us these frogs is an actual genius and deserves all the praise and love for them
@@Vinvininhk to be honest I wouldn’t bat an eye if they were Pokémon since this is pretty much how their names are structured, atleast in recent gens, but it is just one guy who had the power to do the funniest possible thing and took it
Chinese naming standards are a blessing in the palaeontology community, you go from micropachycephalosaurus (yes I know it doesn’t exist anymore let me have my fun) to yi qi. And beg. And beibeilong. Scrolling through Wikipedia I’ve found Shri and shixinggia too (they knew what they were doing with this one).
Coprosma foetidissima would have to be up there: “Dung-smelling really stinky”. It actually doesn’t smell that bad, but apparently when the leaves dry out it gets properly whiffy, so the botanists who first collected specimens must have got really sick of it.
here are some more! i absolutely LOVE collecting awful scientific names :D - puck (anglerfish) - manipulator (cockroach) - argentina (fish) - torpedo (fish) (note: this is an electric ray. there is a british torpedo called the stingray. it's so confusing) - dracula (flower) - bajacalifornia (fish) - metallica (beetle) - mini (frog) - sus (pig) - boops (fish) - eligma (moth) and, honorable mention because i can't remember the latin name: funny-looking buttface
Boops boops is one of my favourites! 😂 I also like the extinct Anomalocaris, aka "abnormal shrimp thingy". Named because its body plan was so confusing, it took 100 years to figure out what the fossil was even supposed to BE.
I am surprised I haven’t seen Crash Bandicoot mentioned in the video or comments. It is a species name of an extinct bandicoot relative. I know it is not in Latin, but it is a species name.
there was a mycologist called Georges Métrod who was namesake for a couple of mushroom species and everytime i see that name my brain reads it as Metroid
I'd personally like to shout out _Chironex fleckeri,_ or "Flecker's hand of death". I guess it does fall into the "species name is some random scientist" trope but like... "Hand of death" is SO evocative.
I think the Pokemon references are pretty funny, like the 3 beetles named after Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. (Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres, and Binburrum zapdos)
I find it absurd that one of the best scientific names is also atached to the coolest bat in existence but nobody mentions it. Vampyrum spectrum, specter of the vampire, a predatory bat that eats large insects and small vertebrates, including ither bats, it's one of the largest bats and have a face copy pasted from a random villanous bat from a fantasy show, idk why it wasn't even mentioned in the tierzoo video about bats
Soooo as a botany nerd I must say you missed out on the absolute GOLD MINE that is Plantae: some of my favorites: Amorphophallus titanum (giant shapeless penis) Clitoria fragrans (nice smelling clitoris) Costus ricus (while the name doesn't mean anything special when translated, it just so happens to come from... you guessed it... Costa Rica. Someone clearly saw a golden opportunity and took it) Diospyros virginiana (Virginian divine food (for those wondering, Persimmons are... decent. Definitely a bit overhyped in the name)) Heliamphora minor (small marsh vase. Nothing too crazy on this one but I just find it charming) There's guaranteed a ton more but taxonomy is just so mind bogglingly massive (IIRC most of Wikipedia articles are taxonomy related) that I can't remember any more fun ones off the top of my head so here ya go! edit: forgot one of my favorites! Encephalartos horridus, the spiny bread-in-the-head (sounds like a Shakespearean insult lmao)
A few years ago they named a new abelisaurid theropod Kurupi itaata. Kurupi is a god of fertility and sex and the fossil was found near a love hotel. The species name means "rock-hard". EDIT: Though admittedly that language isn't Latin.
Clades/species I find funny: Han solo Ornithischia Saurischia Mini mum, Mini scule, Mini ature Agra vation, Agra cadabra Binburrum zapdos Pison eu Mmm mmm Magnapaulia Greggorymorpha Anatotitan Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis Boops boops Ia io Hypatoarchon anaxecumenes 3 of those are fake.
Favorites: *Brontosaurus excelsus* "noble thunder lizard" *Eoraptor lunensis* "dawn bird of prey from (the Valley of the) Moon" *Livyatan melvillei* "Melville (author of Moby Dick)'s leviathan" (it's a sperm whale that ate sharks and whales) *Bulbasaurus phylloxyron* "bulbous lizard leaf razor," which officially refers to the bulbs on its skull and its razor-like beak. But the discoverer has implied that the name may also come from the Pokémon Bulbasaur, which looks a lot like this prehistoric animal, so the binomial could be interpreted as translating to "Bulbasaur Razor Leaf." Least favorites: *Pelagornis miocaenus* "Miocene seabird," which is accurate but completely ignores this gigantic bird's 20-foot wingspan *Thanos simonattoi* because the genus name is just the Marvel character Thanos. It's a very poorly preserved dinosaur that had vestigial arms, so it wouldn't even be able to snap. (some small corrections:) You reversed the etymology of Cenaspis 4:32 Sarsamphiascus is a copepod, not a crab 5:15
What did the poor vampire squid do to get these names, theyre just an goober that does nothing much other than drift around and filter feed 😔 theyre not even a squid theyre more closely related to octopus
@@Sepi-chu_loves_moths well weve always equated the ocean floor with hell, (hence the Abyssal and Hadal zones), and I think they call it Vampire cause of the connective tissue looks like a cloak
Basically, because it's a deep-dwelling spiky boi whose cloak would be a wonderful inspiration for a Castlevania villain if they weren't like negative four inches long
botanists be like: it _has_ to be Latin; you are allowed Greek-derived stems and you _may_ use names of real people as tribute but they _must_ be properly Latinised. zoologist be like: iunno, just make sure it's pronounceable in _some_ language
There's this one extinct lorikeet from some Pacific islands that has the scientific name of _Vini vidivici_ and the common name of 'Conquered lorikeet'. Which has to be up there.
Theres a bacteriophage named Minosphrime after the ultrakill boss of a similar name known as Minos Prime. It still cracks me up when I hear about it just because it survives a ridiculously high ethanol content than most bacteriophages can handle
I study a group of fossil panarthropods called lobopodians, and some of them have some really neat names. Hadranax augustus "Stout king of august" Xenusion auerswaldae "Auerswald's Stranger" Pambdelurion whittingtoni "Whittington's All-loathsome One" Ovatiovermis cribratus "Sieve worm giving a standing ovation" Helenodora inopinata "Helen's unexpected gift" Omnidens amplus "All-tooth giant" Amplectobelua trispinata "Hug-monster with three spines" Also Beorn leggi, named after Beorn, the bear from lord of the rings Theres also lots of related palaeozoic arthropods with fun names, with two of my favourites being Xandarella spectaculum "Fabulous little sea monster with glasses", and Cindarella eucalla, for its phonetic similarity to Xandarella, and eucalla for "beautiful"
wonderful video that had me absolutely cackling I must point out that the day do drop this video scientist named a prehistoric reptile “Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis” That mouth full of a genus name, translates to “fish catching crocodile”, because catching fish is such a great way to distinguish a crocodile
“Phloeodes diabolicus” also known as the “Hellburnt Diabolical Ironclad Beatle” who’s exoskeleton is so strong that they can survive being run over by cars :)
-Aptostichus barackobamai, the Barack Obama trapdoor spider -Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, a moth with scales on its head that looks like Trump's hair -Tetragramma donaldtrumpi, which sounds straight up biblical
_Tyrannasorus rex_, a species of beetle There’s a trio of beetles named after the legendary birds from Pokémon, _Boops boops_ (apparently it’s pronounced “bow-ops bow-ops” but that’s not fun) The genus of lizards with elongated ribs they use to glide being named “Draco” is fucking awesome and nobody can tell me otherwise
There's a genus of spider called Apopyllus, and someone made what I think is the best thing to do in the situation and named a newly discovered species in the genus "now"
I always liked cephalopod just meaning head foot, or foot head, especially because most of their limbs are considered to be 'arms' and none of them are legs (even though that makes marginally more sense and is more consistent with mollusc appendage names).
My favourite is the giant corpse flower Amorphophallus titanum, meaning titanic misshapen penis, which somehow very accurately describes what it looks like.
i love Aha ha because when i first learnt about it i thought it was really funny, and as i was laughing i realized i was quite literally reading its name out loud which made me laugh even more and i was saying it again and so on so forth. i was stuck in a horrible cycle of breathless laughter until my monitor shut off and i had chest pain the next two days. it was beautiful
There is a genus of Beatles named after Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. I heard about this years ago and I still am bugged (pun not intended) by this.
The thing I like about your videos is that they're quick 10-minute videos with something new and interesting. Good video, though I'd suggest Homo sapiens, since we all know how wise humans are.
More specifically many of them are the common Latin name and the latinized Greek name. Some of the common Latin names also etymologically come from Greek, but it starts from what was considered Latin or Greek. And then sub species are usually descriptive with a Latin common name and an adjective or a locative (the name of a place where you would find that species, it's actually more common for flora than for fauna) The issue is that since the 1920s, Latin teaching has been in decline and most biologists don't know Latin anymore, so those dummies keep giving things really stupid names that don't actually describe the species at all. The scientific names themselves are supposed to explain things about the species, but biologists don't even understand that these days. It is pretty upsetting.
Even famous dinosaurs have such silly scientific names like, "flying finger/toe". How am I supposed to take the "tyrannical lizard king" seriously, even when it does prey on the "3 horned face"? Especially when it lived with members of the genus colloquially named "giant duck"; the "thick skulled lizard from Wyoming"; and the genus "fused/bent lizard" which only contains "great belly". Or the "roof lizard" that lived alongside the "deceptive lizard", "double beam", "chambered lizard", and "different lizard". Don't forget the "arm lizard" from the clade "has lizard feet"! I also love how wolves are named "dog wolf", eurasian wolves are named "dog wolf wolf", but dogs are named "familiar dog /(wolf)". And that domesticated ferrets are "stinky little thieves".
There's a family of Australian beetles that are Binburrum Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres in recognition of the three legendary Pokémon, so while not necessarily the best, I enjoy the names and wanted to give them a shout out.
So some scientists split Vampire squid into 2 different species, with Vampiroteuthis infernalis being the original one, and the new one being called Vampiroteuthus sudoinfernalis, which is kinda lame. But it is infinantly better than what they originally named it in the preprint, which was Vampiroteuthis southchinaseais.
My favorite of weird name is "Dziwneono weewaa" which is species of Australian hemiptera Insect. It was named by polish scientist, and in Polish it means "it is strange" or literally "weird they" and weewaa just sound ridiculous, but it's just name of town near site in which it was discovered.
My favorite has to be Han solo, an extinct trilobite found in China. Allegedly, it was named for the Han dynasty as well as the fact that it was the only species in its genus (hence “solo”). But it turns out the guy who named it had actually been dared to name an animal after a Star Wars character.
Oviously you have not yet heard of how cats are named. A cat must have three different names. First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily, Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo, or James, Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey- All of them sensible everyday names. There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter, Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames: Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter- But all of them sensible everyday names, But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular, A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified, Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular, Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride? Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum, Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat, Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum- Names that never belong to more than one cat. But above and beyond there’s still one name left over, And that is the name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover- But The cat himself knows, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular name.
Hotwheels sysiphus is still my favorite
The best thing is it's named after how loopy and long its reproductive organs are
@@Sepi-chu_loves_moths The fact that "Hotwheels" is a recognized genus fills me with a very strong emotion, but I don't know which one.
yeah we are never getting any better or worse than Hotwheels sisyphus
@@Sepi-chu_loves_mothsand how they keep getting longer to out compete the opposite gender
"you shall do as an appetizer"
the fact that the first classified dinosaur fossil was originally called 'Scrotum Humanum' cannot be forgotten. peak shitpost naming right there
The story behind it is a very good one, but I tried not to include obsolete names.
69 likes, nice
Glad someone said it before me. I first learned about scrotum humanum from the guy who named Irritator challengeri, who was all too eager to talk about vulgar names...
i mean, if you have no knowledge on fossils, bones amd anything at all that does look like a pair of well that
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There's a fungus called Spongiforma squarepantsii.
WHO LIVES IN MALAYSIA UNDER A TREE! (SPONGIFORMA SQUAREPANTSII!)
RUBBERY AND ORANGE AND ODOROUS IS HE! (SPONGIFORMA SQUAREPANTSII!!)
IF FUNGAL NONSENSE BE SOMETHING YE WISH!
(SPONGIFORMIA SQUAREPANTSII!!!)
We need someone to create the "Amongii" genus after the Among Us crew mates.
@@secondbeamship “Helix Imposterus”
There's a species of frog that was discovered in Colombia and was named Allobates Niputidea. The name comes from the Spanish expression "Ni puta idea" which means No f*cking clue because they weren't sure how to name it.
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Idk how English-speaking biologists typically pronounce that but it could plausibly be "nipple tiddia" and I think that's worth points
Actually, their justification is even funnier. It reads “it’s the common saying in spannish taxonomist use when reviewing small, brown frogs like the one presented here” or something among those lines
Waiting for the day an animal comes out with the name Hijoeputa (hijo de puta)
“Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla” is so fucking funny for no reason
Reminds me of an argument between Tarzan and the bad guy from the movie when he’s trying to teach Tarzan English and ascertain the location of the gorillas.
@@notafraidofchangeGo-ril-las!
"Wild Wild Horse" and "Spotted Spotted Panther" are also up there
i think the reason is that it’s repeated three times
Gorilla³
My biggest issue with video game creature names is that they are far too helpful and descriptive. Even assuming biologists didn't get to this exoplanet first, earth's common animal names include "forest man", "weaver in yellow jacket", and of course the "iunno". If biologists DID get there first, we'd have a whole new planet of "horrible bear bear", "I don't know what lizard this is but I found it in Mongolia", and "weird shrimp thing I named after my pal".
Pokemon's recent games are pretty good about having names that make sense for the animal without being super obvious.
Not to mention the "I swear this thing _looks_ like a fish, its probably not but I'll go with it"
"uhhhh... fuck if I know. all I can tell is it looks like a dick"
I prefer the old Pokemon names, they were much less descriptive, “Golem”.
When my brother first played No Man's Sky, he found a tall plant species the game named "Reallonghite", that cracked him up something fierce
Special shout-out to the American robin, because the Latin name’s meaning is perfectly fine (translates to “migratory thrush”) but _Turdus migratorius_ sounds like it was chosen by a bunch of middle schoolers
Tibetan blackbird, Turdus maximus
Tordo is still the name for that kind of bird in Italian (the latin S was retracted like in soanish, and so at the end of syllables/words it often turned into an approximant like if does in many variants of spanish, like cuban spanish; and the vowels split from 5 vowels with two variants each to 7 individual vowels, giving short u > o)
Turdus ignobilis debilis
This made me snicker like a 3rd grader @@dipping9432
@@dipping9432that sounds like a second grade insult
you forgot hotwheels sisyphus
Of course, named for the shape of its balls.
i know what vid you took this from =D
Dangit! You beat me to it. Ah well, there is always MinosPhrime.
Ahh, 3 at last
I think both names have to be Latin for it to count
Crazy naming something BAZINGA like arent you a scientist lock in
scientists are all jsut grown up nerds what do u expect lmfao
either you're smart, or you're creative
Euglossa bazinga says hi.
Bruh naming skunks after a goddess of poison gas isn't sucky it is METAL.
Also linguists should be forbidden from making jokes about "labia" sounding lewd, on punishment of being forbidden from using bilabial or labiodental consonants for a week.
The -ial suffix at least disguises it
@@JohnSmith-of2gu I can lith without those
unless of course you articulate them with actual labia
@@enricobianchi4499 cursed
@@zzineohp You used a w - detention!!
You're missing the most hilarious scientific names by excluding plants and fungi. Phallus impudicus, just saying.
Amorphophallus yaoi my beloved
@@ratpolarisYAOI⁉️⁉️
And it absolutely does look like one.
@@cinnarollinq ITS REAL LOOK IT UP
Don't forget about...
_Clitoria fragrans_
There is a beetle called “tyrannasorus rex”, not to be confused with the dinosaur. I find that too funny
Now for the real question, would you prefer fighting a tyrannasorus Rex, or a tyrannosaurus rex
“Parapropalaehoplophorus”, a species of glyptodont is one of my favorites. It’s named after “Propalaehoplophorus”, a species of glyptodont named after “Palaehoplophorus”, a species of glyptodont named after “Hoplophorus”. Interestingly, all four seem to not be that closely related.
So it's like "parallel to the one before the old Hoplophorus" or something? Holy shit.
um excuse me what the actual fu-
theres a genus of beetles called gelae with species named gelae rol, gelae fish, gelae baen, gelae donut, and gelae belae
perfect
“Gelae Belae” makes me think of the fucking Jelly Belly pet rat video and it pisses me off so I think this one wins.
No gelae eel 😔
What does galae mean?
@@TheBelovedBunSAME. I CAN HEAR IT IN MY HEAD
Mini mum, Mini ature, and Mini scule. All frogs discovered by one guy. They sure are mini :]
maybe not the worst Latin name but the guy who brought us these frogs is an actual genius and deserves all the praise and love for them
Are these species names or Pokemon names?
@@Vinvininhk to be honest I wouldn’t bat an eye if they were Pokémon since this is pretty much how their names are structured, atleast in recent gens, but it is just one guy who had the power to do the funniest possible thing and took it
Are those the ones where the same guy found the smallest, then found another smaller one, then an even smaller one?
Okay but these are amazing
Dr Mark D Scherz is the herpetologist responsible for those names! He’s a legend!
little chief nipple twister feels like a very personal name
There's also the tardigrade _Neostygarctus lovedeluxe_ because even the most esteemed halls of academia aren't safe from JoJo references.
So jojo has infiltrated the louvre and now taxonomy? What's next, a statue of the joestars in hague???
I feel like this shouldn’t be surprising due to many scientists being nerds.
Love Deluxe is also the name of the critically acclaimed album by musician Sade
@@chibiNATHAthe stand is named after the album
Even tardigrades are jojo references😭 lmao I'm not even surprised
You forgot about hotwheels sisyphus, the spider with reproductive organs as twisty as a hotwheels track
The name of the pterosaur Meilifeilong youhao means "✨💖BEAUTIFUL FLYING DRAGON OF FRIENDSHIP💖✨"
Awww 美丽飞龙 友好 uwu
awesome
Now that's an awesome name right there
Chinese naming standards are a blessing in the palaeontology community, you go from micropachycephalosaurus (yes I know it doesn’t exist anymore let me have my fun) to yi qi. And beg. And beibeilong. Scrolling through Wikipedia I’ve found Shri and shixinggia too (they knew what they were doing with this one).
@@Aaaaaaarrrpirate Beg and Shri are actually Mongolian
Coprosma foetidissima would have to be up there: “Dung-smelling really stinky”. It actually doesn’t smell that bad, but apparently when the leaves dry out it gets properly whiffy, so the botanists who first collected specimens must have got really sick of it.
here are some more! i absolutely LOVE collecting awful scientific names :D
- puck (anglerfish)
- manipulator (cockroach)
- argentina (fish)
- torpedo (fish) (note: this is an electric ray. there is a british torpedo called the stingray. it's so confusing)
- dracula (flower)
- bajacalifornia (fish)
- metallica (beetle)
- mini (frog)
- sus (pig)
- boops (fish)
- eligma (moth)
and, honorable mention because i can't remember the latin name:
funny-looking buttface
Boops boops is one of my favourites! 😂
I also like the extinct Anomalocaris, aka "abnormal shrimp thingy". Named because its body plan was so confusing, it took 100 years to figure out what the fossil was even supposed to BE.
@@e.s.r5809 Boops boops in a bucket
Of course there’s always Megaloblatta longipennis
Not sure what it means in latin but it’s a big ass cockroach
If the wrong person discovers an extinct hog, we WILL be stuck with Sus amogus.
Boops and mini sounds perfect for a frog and fish lol
there's a clade of fish called "Smegmamorpha" 👎
There are also bacteria carrying the name 'smegmatis'. Guess how they were discovered 🥴
A quick search shows this is probably wrong
@@redneckchemistry omg i spelled it wrong 😭i meant Smegmamorpha
That fish is definitely not smegma shaped.
My favorite genus is Dickinsonia, named after the guy who discovered it. But it can also mean... You know...
the species rex is literally Dickinsons King, kinda cool, not shit tho
not to be confused with Dicksonia, a living tree fern genus
Sonic fans smh
There’s also Dicksonia!
I now know someone’s favourite Danganronpa character…
I am surprised I haven’t seen Crash Bandicoot mentioned in the video or comments. It is a species name of an extinct bandicoot relative. I know it is not in Latin, but it is a species name.
1:05 the fact that i could recognize not only the slug, but the dead leaves it crawled on (redwood trees)
Well yeah, they’re the mascot of UC Santa Cruz for a reason.
Animantarx is great but I think Invictarx zephyri = "Unconquerable fortress of the western wind" is absolutely fantastic too!
Not you putting controversial headliners under each celebrity name 💀 made me pause to read all of them
there was a mycologist called Georges Métrod who was namesake for a couple of mushroom species and everytime i see that name my brain reads it as Metroid
You sure that's not a komayto?
@@PixyEm hmm.. _Komaytomyces puericari_
that does have a good ring to it
I'd personally like to shout out _Chironex fleckeri,_ or "Flecker's hand of death". I guess it does fall into the "species name is some random scientist" trope but like... "Hand of death" is SO evocative.
I think the Pokemon references are pretty funny, like the 3 beetles named after Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres. (Binburrum articuno, Binburrum moltres, and Binburrum zapdos)
There's also a cockroach species named after Pheromosa
it bothers me that you listed moltres second
I find it absurd that one of the best scientific names is also atached to the coolest bat in existence but nobody mentions it. Vampyrum spectrum, specter of the vampire, a predatory bat that eats large insects and small vertebrates, including ither bats, it's one of the largest bats and have a face copy pasted from a random villanous bat from a fantasy show, idk why it wasn't even mentioned in the tierzoo video about bats
The mysterious dinner snake got me 😂😂😂
favorite for me as well
“Aha ha” really sent me flying and it shouldn’t have.
Soooo as a botany nerd I must say you missed out on the absolute GOLD MINE that is Plantae:
some of my favorites:
Amorphophallus titanum (giant shapeless penis)
Clitoria fragrans (nice smelling clitoris)
Costus ricus (while the name doesn't mean anything special when translated, it just so happens to come from... you guessed it... Costa Rica. Someone clearly saw a golden opportunity and took it)
Diospyros virginiana (Virginian divine food (for those wondering, Persimmons are... decent. Definitely a bit overhyped in the name))
Heliamphora minor (small marsh vase. Nothing too crazy on this one but I just find it charming)
There's guaranteed a ton more but taxonomy is just so mind bogglingly massive (IIRC most of Wikipedia articles are taxonomy related) that I can't remember any more fun ones off the top of my head so here ya go!
edit: forgot one of my favorites! Encephalartos horridus, the spiny bread-in-the-head (sounds like a Shakespearean insult lmao)
A few years ago they named a new abelisaurid theropod Kurupi itaata. Kurupi is a god of fertility and sex and the fossil was found near a love hotel. The species name means "rock-hard".
EDIT: Though admittedly that language isn't Latin.
Clades/species I find funny:
Han solo
Ornithischia
Saurischia
Mini mum, Mini scule, Mini ature
Agra vation, Agra cadabra
Binburrum zapdos
Pison eu
Mmm mmm
Magnapaulia
Greggorymorpha
Anatotitan
Myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis
Boops boops
Ia io
Hypatoarchon anaxecumenes
3 of those are fake.
Considering that scientists are a bunch of nerd, Han Solo sounds like a real one. Like Hotwheels sisifus.
“Greggorymorpha”, “Mmm mmm” and “Hypatoarchon” are the fake ones, right?
Please tell me Mmm mmm is a fake one
Can't believe Boops Boops is real, but it is! It's a fish and it's pronounced Bo-ops Bo-ops meaning Ox-eyed in Greek
One of the fakes is town somewhere in europe
Favorites:
*Brontosaurus excelsus* "noble thunder lizard"
*Eoraptor lunensis* "dawn bird of prey from (the Valley of the) Moon"
*Livyatan melvillei* "Melville (author of Moby Dick)'s leviathan" (it's a sperm whale that ate sharks and whales)
*Bulbasaurus phylloxyron* "bulbous lizard leaf razor," which officially refers to the bulbs on its skull and its razor-like beak. But the discoverer has implied that the name may also come from the Pokémon Bulbasaur, which looks a lot like this prehistoric animal, so the binomial could be interpreted as translating to "Bulbasaur Razor Leaf."
Least favorites:
*Pelagornis miocaenus* "Miocene seabird," which is accurate but completely ignores this gigantic bird's 20-foot wingspan
*Thanos simonattoi* because the genus name is just the Marvel character Thanos. It's a very poorly preserved dinosaur that had vestigial arms, so it wouldn't even be able to snap.
(some small corrections:)
You reversed the etymology of Cenaspis 4:32
Sarsamphiascus is a copepod, not a crab 5:15
What did the poor vampire squid do to get these names, theyre just an goober that does nothing much other than drift around and filter feed 😔 theyre not even a squid theyre more closely related to octopus
@@Sepi-chu_loves_moths well weve always equated the ocean floor with hell, (hence the Abyssal and Hadal zones), and I think they call it Vampire cause of the connective tissue looks like a cloak
Basically, because it's a deep-dwelling spiky boi whose cloak would be a wonderful inspiration for a Castlevania villain if they weren't like negative four inches long
They look like Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
Scientific latin is from outer space
botanists be like: it _has_ to be Latin; you are allowed Greek-derived stems and you _may_ use names of real people as tribute but they _must_ be properly Latinised.
zoologist be like: iunno, just make sure it's pronounceable in _some_ language
No mention of that big spider officially named as *Hotwheels* *sisyphus?*
I mean... it's accurate to what evolution did to it it does look like a hot wheels track in there and sisaphus is obvious
"Schlineohp" was absolutely "Schlabbergasted"
What does this mean?
I cannot believe what I'm reading
wow…
please dont tell the scientific community about schlatt
There's this one extinct lorikeet from some Pacific islands that has the scientific name of _Vini vidivici_ and the common name of 'Conquered lorikeet'. Which has to be up there.
Theres a bacteriophage named Minosphrime after the ultrakill boss of a similar name known as Minos Prime. It still cracks me up when I hear about it just because it survives a ridiculously high ethanol content than most bacteriophages can handle
I study a group of fossil panarthropods called lobopodians, and some of them have some really neat names.
Hadranax augustus "Stout king of august"
Xenusion auerswaldae "Auerswald's Stranger"
Pambdelurion whittingtoni "Whittington's All-loathsome One"
Ovatiovermis cribratus "Sieve worm giving a standing ovation"
Helenodora inopinata "Helen's unexpected gift"
Omnidens amplus "All-tooth giant"
Amplectobelua trispinata "Hug-monster with three spines"
Also Beorn leggi, named after Beorn, the bear from lord of the rings
Theres also lots of related palaeozoic arthropods with fun names, with two of my favourites being
Xandarella spectaculum "Fabulous little sea monster with glasses", and
Cindarella eucalla, for its phonetic similarity to Xandarella, and eucalla for "beautiful"
wonderful video that had me absolutely cackling
I must point out that the day do drop this video scientist named a prehistoric reptile “Benggwigwishingasuchus eremicarminis”
That mouth full of a genus name, translates to “fish catching crocodile”, because catching fish is such a great way to distinguish a crocodile
“Phloeodes diabolicus” also known as the “Hellburnt Diabolical Ironclad Beatle” who’s exoskeleton is so strong that they can survive being run over by cars :)
-Aptostichus barackobamai, the Barack Obama trapdoor spider
-Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, a moth with scales on its head that looks like Trump's hair
-Tetragramma donaldtrumpi, which sounds straight up biblical
also obamadon, a fossil lizard they named after obama
Obama spider sounds like a meme from 2019 lmao
@@Flesh_Wizardoh no I just remembered about the Obunga, someone really needs to name a giant cockroach species "obama"
Your tone of voice when you said 'submissive' at 1:30 killed me...
_Tyrannasorus rex_, a species of beetle
There’s a trio of beetles named after the legendary birds from Pokémon,
_Boops boops_ (apparently it’s pronounced “bow-ops bow-ops” but that’s not fun)
The genus of lizards with elongated ribs they use to glide being named “Draco” is fucking awesome and nobody can tell me otherwise
Ahh yes, gotta love those gliding dragons.
ursus arctus horribilis, the grizzly bear, was robbed.
it means "bear bear horrible".
I love how some dinosaurs are called "no mate lizard", and then there's "the shadow that kills" or "Fears nothing".
The best scientific name is actually 'Maip', which means: 'the shadow of death that kills with the cold wind'. So...
Gary Larson is famous for unintentionally naming the Thagomizer, but he also has a louse named after him--Strigiphilus Garylarsoni.
Read a book about animals once for a non-fiction reading assignment. The name "rattus rattus" for the black rat had me just about dying.
There's a genus of spider called Apopyllus, and someone made what I think is the best thing to do in the situation and named a newly discovered species in the genus "now"
I always liked cephalopod just meaning head foot, or foot head, especially because most of their limbs are considered to be 'arms' and none of them are legs (even though that makes marginally more sense and is more consistent with mollusc appendage names).
I can’t believe you haven’t mentioned hotwheels sisyphus 😔
Hey, where's Biggus Dickus?
/j
What's wrong with that name? Do you find it Risible When I say the name Biggus Dickus?
@@zzineohp Welease Bwian
@@zzineohp does anyone know me momma stinkus ?
This is the best thumbnail I've ever seen.
It seems like gorillas are very much gorillas.
My favourite is the giant corpse flower Amorphophallus titanum, meaning titanic misshapen penis, which somehow very accurately describes what it looks like.
David Attenborough had a marine species of pliosaur named after him known as attenborosaurus
i love Aha ha because when i first learnt about it i thought it was really funny, and as i was laughing i realized i was quite literally reading its name out loud which made me laugh even more and i was saying it again and so on so forth. i was stuck in a horrible cycle of breathless laughter until my monitor shut off and i had chest pain the next two days. it was beautiful
There is a genus of Beatles named after Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. I heard about this years ago and I still am bugged (pun not intended) by this.
4:01 I agree with Sam O'Nella on this one. The scientific name for the western lowland gorilla is quite good because it's funny.
I'm personally a big fan of Zuul crurivastator.
Zuul, Destroyer of Shins
The thing I like about your videos is that they're quick 10-minute videos with something new and interesting. Good video, though I'd suggest Homo sapiens, since we all know how wise humans are.
Smok wawelski - fully correct in Polish grammar meaning "Dragon from Wawel (hill)"
More specifically many of them are the common Latin name and the latinized Greek name.
Some of the common Latin names also etymologically come from Greek, but it starts from what was considered Latin or Greek.
And then sub species are usually descriptive with a Latin common name and an adjective or a locative (the name of a place where you would find that species, it's actually more common for flora than for fauna)
The issue is that since the 1920s, Latin teaching has been in decline and most biologists don't know Latin anymore, so those dummies keep giving things really stupid names that don't actually describe the species at all.
The scientific names themselves are supposed to explain things about the species, but biologists don't even understand that these days. It is pretty upsetting.
2:35 DETROIT MENTIONED ‼️‼️‼️
Even famous dinosaurs have such silly scientific names like, "flying finger/toe". How am I supposed to take the "tyrannical lizard king" seriously, even when it does prey on the "3 horned face"? Especially when it lived with members of the genus colloquially named "giant duck"; the "thick skulled lizard from Wyoming"; and the genus "fused/bent lizard" which only contains "great belly". Or the "roof lizard" that lived alongside the "deceptive lizard", "double beam", "chambered lizard", and "different lizard". Don't forget the "arm lizard" from the clade "has lizard feet"!
I also love how wolves are named "dog wolf", eurasian wolves are named "dog wolf wolf", but dogs are named "familiar dog /(wolf)". And that domesticated ferrets are "stinky little thieves".
Technically, flying finger was a wing lizard, not a terror lizard ;)
how about the bajacalifornia slickhead? holy guacamole they didn't even TRY with that one
Cant believe he didn't mention Han solo
What a shitty way to find out Neil Gayman has assault allegations.
Omg how could you not forget the entire genius of David Bowie spiders!?!?!?
Did you forget Myxococcus (that welsh village)ensis?
There's a family of Australian beetles that are Binburrum Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres in recognition of the three legendary Pokémon, so while not necessarily the best, I enjoy the names and wanted to give them a shout out.
2:09 that got a chuckle out of me, well played
So some scientists split Vampire squid into 2 different species, with Vampiroteuthis infernalis being the original one, and the new one being called Vampiroteuthus sudoinfernalis, which is kinda lame. But it is infinantly better than what they originally named it in the preprint, which was Vampiroteuthis southchinaseais.
Dracorex is almost as hardcore as Stygimoloch, but unfortunately it has met the EXACT SAME FATE.
2:49 "What about extinct animals? Well irritator comes to min-" 💀
2:27 "oh I thought pediatry was for feet. Pedestrian? Ped?" "No, that's podiatry" "You just said the same word" "Sure, but I spelled it different"
You forgot to mention the best genus of Abelisaur, Thanos
My favorite of weird name is "Dziwneono weewaa" which is species of Australian hemiptera Insect. It was named by polish scientist, and in Polish it means "it is strange" or literally "weird they" and weewaa just sound ridiculous, but it's just name of town near site in which it was discovered.
Lapsias lorax. A jumping spider named after the lorax. I learned this exists today so I want to share it.
Hotwheels Sysyphus and MinosPhrime (a bacteriophage, but still a silly name) come to mind.
Creature of ethanol…
My favorite has to be Han solo, an extinct trilobite found in China. Allegedly, it was named for the Han dynasty as well as the fact that it was the only species in its genus (hence “solo”). But it turns out the guy who named it had actually been dared to name an animal after a Star Wars character.
Oviously you have not yet heard of how cats are named.
A cat must have three different names.
First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo, or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey-
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter-
But all of them sensible everyday names,
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular,
A name that’s peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum-
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover-
But The cat himself knows, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular name.
@@lorenzreiher1407 did I just get Catsed in my own comment section
My two favourite occasions of insect look matching insect name are "Neopalpa Donaldtrumpi" and "Heteropoda Davidbowie"
Gnorimoschema gallaesolidaginis
The guy who has been studying t for over 20 years still can’t pronounce it.
_Pheidole megatron_ and _Pheidole decepticon_ - two Transformers-named ants in the same genus.
I want to see a nest of each fight
In my childhood, I thought scientists made shit up when naming creatures.
Turns out I was right all along.
“Beautiful indigestion” was way too relatable
The type species of the genus _Bassariscus, Bassariscus astutus,_ translates to "clever little fox."
Hopefully by now, people of science have learned their lesson and banned naming animal species after people or cultures because dear lord
Hotwheels Sisyphus better be on here.
😔.
_Amorphophallus titanum_ is my personal (least) favorite: "titanic weirdly-shaped phallus"
There is a mantis named after the wild kratts
4:08 I just imagine this wasp saying that to my face right before it stings me.
your style is amazing. earned a sub