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...
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.
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
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".
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.
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
“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.
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Tordo is still the name for that kind of bird in Italian (the latin S was retracted like in soanish, and so at the end of syllables/words it often turned into an approximant like if does in many variants of spanish, like cuban spanish; and the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)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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"
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)
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.
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
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
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.
-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
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
_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
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 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 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"
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.
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).
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.
they named a pigeon after Queen Victoria, and in the same pigeon genus, if I recall correctly the guy who found out it was a separate species sourced his pigeons from a guy who he named the pigeon after in the end
Someone should clip 0:00 - 0:01 and make a 10 hour version of that EDIT: you can go to 0:01 and click the backward 10 secs button repeatedly for the same effect
My favourite is the giant corpse flower Amorphophallus titanum, meaning titanic misshapen penis, which somehow very accurately describes what it looks like.
Imagine ur whole species dies out and ur the only one found but u were literally someone’s dinner so they name u mysterious dinner. I would carry shame in my afterlife I think
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"
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”
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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“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
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
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
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
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!!
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!
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_
“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.
Crazy naming something BAZINGA like arent you a scientist lock in
scientists are all jsut grown up nerds what do u expect lmfao
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
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 😔
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
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.
There is a beetle called “tyrannasorus rex”, not to be confused with the dinosaur. I find that too funny
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
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…
The mysterious dinner snake got me 😂😂😂
favorite for me as well
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
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.
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
The name of the pterosaur Meilifeilong youhao means "✨💖BEAUTIFUL FLYING DRAGON OF FRIENDSHIP💖✨"
Awww 美丽飞龙 友好 uwu
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.
Animantarx is great but I think Invictarx zephyri = "Unconquerable fortress of the western wind" is absolutely fantastic too!
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 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"
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)
You forgot about hotwheels sisyphus, the spider with reproductive organs as twisty as a hotwheels track
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.
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.
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.
"Schlineohp" was absolutely "Schlabbergasted"
What does this mean?
I cannot believe what I'm reading
wow…
please dont tell the scientific community about schlatt
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
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.
3:32 look at this guy's other tabs
-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"
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
_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.
“Aha ha” really sent me flying and it shouldn’t have.
No mention of that big spider officially named as *Hotwheels* *sisyphus?*
Sick.
Commented for the algorithm.
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
2:09 that got a chuckle out of me, well played
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
This is the best thumbnail I've ever seen.
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
Cant believe he didn't mention Han solo
little chief nipple twister feels like a very personal name
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"
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.
your style is amazing. earned a sub
Smok wawelski - fully correct in Polish grammar meaning "Dragon from Wawel (hill)"
2:35 DETROIT MENTIONED ‼️‼️‼️
4:32 you got this backwards, cena means dinner, aspis means snake
he also had "Saur" glossed as "bird" and "ornith" as "lizard" at some point
Hopefully by now, people of science have learned their lesson and banned naming animal species after people or cultures because dear lord
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.
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).
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.
2:49 "What about extinct animals? Well irritator comes to min-" 💀
Immaculate pacing with this video
they named a pigeon after Queen Victoria, and in the same pigeon genus, if I recall correctly the guy who found out it was a separate species sourced his pigeons from a guy who he named the pigeon after in the end
In my childhood, I thought scientists made shit up when naming creatures.
Turns out I was right all along.
Someone should clip 0:00 - 0:01 and make a 10 hour version of that
EDIT: you can go to 0:01 and click the backward 10 secs button repeatedly for the same effect
The type species of the genus _Bassariscus, Bassariscus astutus,_ translates to "clever little fox."
The diabolical ironclad beetle
Gary Larson is famous for unintentionally naming the Thagomizer, but he also has a louse named after him--Strigiphilus Garylarsoni.
"Gasoline Lizard Constructed" goes so fucking hard
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.
I swear theres a dinosaur named just Thanos
There's a extinct beetle named "tyrannasorus rex"
I like Brachiosaurus meaning "Arm lizard".
This was very funny to watch. I'm sure there's loads more to find.
_Pheidole megatron_ and _Pheidole decepticon_ - two Transformers-named ants in the same genus.
I want to see a nest of each fight
Not a scientific name but I would mention there’s a fish called a ‘bony eared assfish’
Hotwheels Sysyphus and MinosPhrime (a bacteriophage, but still a silly name) come to mind.
Creature of ethanol…
My favourite is the giant corpse flower Amorphophallus titanum, meaning titanic misshapen penis, which somehow very accurately describes what it looks like.
how about the bajacalifornia slickhead? holy guacamole they didn't even TRY with that one
There is a cockroach called Megaloblatta longipennis
ludodactylus beeing named after the toys is a nice homage
I recently learned from another biologist youtuber about the spider Hotwheels Sisyphus
4:08 is this wasp a reference to the Southlands from the popular Minecraft series Last Life??
LIFE SERIES HERE OF ALL PLACES. YOUVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME HOW DOES IT KEEP FINDING ME AHA-FTER ALL THIS TIME
not where I expected a life series jumpscare but yeah sure why not. the southlanders have a wasp mascot now
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"
Imagine ur whole species dies out and ur the only one found but u were literally someone’s dinner so they name u mysterious dinner. I would carry shame in my afterlife I think
The "mammilaria longimamma" with the italian accent made me laugh so loud lmao
Man, some of those names near the end are metal af
5:26 He also has an extinct species of crocodile (Goniopholis kiplingi)
I love how you talk it really tickles my brain
Your tone of voice when you said 'submissive' at 1:30 killed me...
Never forget the recent discovery of the wondrous "hotwheels sisyphus"
I know of a snail genus named testacella and also I believe the land snails that live closest to Antarctica have the species name hookeri
5:14 that's a copepod not a crab
Colpiocephalae: knuckle head
Micropachycephalosaurus: tiny thick headed lizard.
Ceratosuchops inferodies: horned crocodile faced hell heron.
Bro this is legit the funniest thing I’ve watched in a long time
Finally a chance to reference ultrakill, theres a bacteriophage named minos phrime
Some of my favourites are Amorphophallus (weirdly shaped peepee) and Aa (the genus name is just that)
didn't even mention genus Phallus smh