8 апр. 2020 г. · Dinosaur is from the Greek Deinos meaning Terrible and Sauros meaning Lizard. So a dinosaur is a terrible lizard.

18 сент. 2024 г. · It's right, dinosaur comes from the Greek words for monstrous lizard. Translation is sometimes a bit off but terrible is a reasonable sub for monstrous.

9 мая 2022 г. · Dinosaurs were named terrible lizards because at least some scientists thought they were big lizards. They were wrong, but there's no mechanism for changing ...

9 мая 2020 г. · Now we all know that dinosaur means terrible lizard in Greek, and we also know that lizards aren't very close at all to dinosaurs in evolutionary lineage.

17 авг. 2022 г. · Tyrannosaurus means "tyrant lizard". The specific epithet rex comes from the Latin for royalty. So Tyrannosaurus rex is the tyrant lizard king.

25 окт. 2021 г. · A lot of people were taught the translation of the terms. Dinosaur meaning Terrible Lizard, Brontosaurus meaning Thunder Lizard etc... I'm ...

17 сент. 2019 г. · He actually said Always Faithful Tyrant Lizard, not Terrible Lizard. Terrible Lizard would have been 'dinosaur'.

27 авг. 2016 г. · Zilla should be renamed to Jirasaurus. "Jira" still being Zilla, and "Saurus" simply meaning terrible lizard, as it's not a title exclusive to dinosaurs.

5 июн. 2022 г. · The species name functions basically like an adjective modifying the generic name. So technically it's "king tyrant lizard", like "emperor penguin".

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