What's in a (dinosaur) name? #paleontology #prehistoric #science #sciencefacts #dinosaurs #dino

The way we order the names of dinosaurs and other animals can leave the layperson with some level of confusion. Hopefully this helps clear some of it up!

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[YourDinosaursAreWrong]

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[TheSpeculativeDoodl]

Thank you! I’m doing a spec bio project, and the research reports needed this, so I appreciate it, this came out at the perfect time lol

[LouderThanLife]

My nerdy brain has never been more excited to learn about taxonomy and linguistics ❤

[risel]

Joke's on you, I'm already subtribed.

[benrowe]

Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, Phylum and Kingdom. Those are about as deep into taxonomy as I ever got.

Anything deeper than that is where it gets really confusing, because of naming schemes like this 😅.

[MylotheZooLovingScientist]

I very much appreciate this quick and simple but very effective explanation of how suffixes relate to taxonomic rankings! Across the paleontology videos and channels I’ve seen, I feel like explanations as to what clade is being referenced by a particular name are either completely glossed over or needlessly complicated / unsatisfactory. I’ve been familiar with the taxonomic rankings and their respective suffixes for a little while now, having looked at phylogenies for fun on many occasions (an egregious nerd brag, I know, I’m sorry 😭), so understanding wasn’t an issue for me in those instances, but I often wondered how well those other explanations would have served people with much less or no knowledge of taxonomy. All that to say once again that I am thankful for this guide!

[theinformedtoast]

You guys help me refine my paleo and taxonomy knowledge on the regular, just wanted to say thank you!

[peepcat]

I've been binge watching all the ydaw videos and I just want to say thank you for making them, they're so educational and fascinating, it's been satisfying my crave for dinosaur content, I'm so tempted to buy merch !!

[DryptosaurusDavid]

I like this. Talk about simplifying the explanation

[queerlang]

How hyperspecific are his plastic dinosaurs that's so funny to me

[claytonharting]

I love when naming conventions are used like this, reminds me of organic chemistry, it’s beautiful

[kenithmay]

Man i could listen to this guy all day long ❤

[kawawangkowboy]

I love cladistics so much. It's my happy place

[singhmastr]

And my moms keep trying to throw out my toy dinosaurs from when I was 5! 😂😂

[chezquow-williams]

I have literally never had this problem.

[LouderThanLife]

You wouldn't want to do this for the major races in D&D would you? Someone has got to get on that 😆

[nargacugalover]

I just call them: "Something saur idk"

[idle_speculation]

I kind of want to see you cover that one kangaroo-shaped toy marketed as Moropus(a schizotheriine chalicothere), but I believe you get your toys from fan mail…

[CurlyCley]

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😀that went way over my silly lil head

[pranavs]

This is true for animals. Scientists, trying to ruin things for the already confused future biology students, decided that plants gave a completely different system - for example plant families end in aceae and subclasses end in idae