Dr. Dean Lomax

So the word dinosaur means, ultimately means like terrible lizard or fearfully great lizard.

So they're not fucking lizards.

So that's not helpful either.

And the same with ichthyosaur, ichthyosaur actually means fish lizard.

They're not fish, they're not lizards.

But it was at the time when they were described, they thought they were some sort of fish lizard type creature.

Now it's like, oh, they weren't, they're reptiles that look a bit like lizards, look a little bit like fish.

Oh, the A. Okay, yeah, good question, Jack.

So when you're naming new species, if it's after a person, if it's a male, it would be like I, as in the adding I. If it's female, it's A-E.

And so that's the reason there.

So it's like masculine or feminine, and that's what you add on to the end.

Oh.

So even if you name it after, say, a place.

So I named another species that was called Ichthyosaurus somersetensis, named after Somerset.

And so you have like ensis on the end.

So each time you kind of name something new, if it's after a place or a person, you add that.

But also then you could say, for example, Triceratops would be a good one.

So like Triceratops basically translates to like three horned face.

And that's because the two brow horns and then the nasal horn.

And it's usually taken like Greek and Latin.