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Dinosaurs are lizards, in fact the name means Terrifying Lizard.
Dinosaurs are lizards, in fact the name means Terrifying Lizard.
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The word brontophobia means an abnormal fear of thunder. It has nothing to do with dinosaurs, however, the dinosaur name brontosaurus means thunder lizard, so in both cases there is a linguistic link to thunder.
The largest dinosaur known from well preserved remains is Argentinosaurus. Its name means "Argentina lizard."
Allosaurus means "different lizard." At the time of its discovery, Allosaurus appeared to have vertebrae that were different from other dinosaurs, hence the name.
Dinosaur is made up of two words that come from Greek, the first word is "deinos", which means "terrible" and the second word "sauros" which means "lizard" or "reptile". So together dinosaur means "terrible lizard". Though this name is not entirely accurate since dinosaurs are not lizards.
"Terrible lizard." It's kind of an unfortunate name, because dinosaurs weren't lizards, but the scientists who first studied their fossil remains were unwilling to accept the simple country folks' notion that they looked like fowl. If they had been a bit more open-minded, we might be calling them "dinogalliformes," or "terrible chickens."
The first hadrosaur discovered was Hadrosaurus, and the group Hadrosauridae gets its name from it. Hadrosaurus was named by Joseph Leidy. The name means "sturdy lizard."
According to the site below, Alberta means "noble and famous."
The dinosaur who's name means tyrant lizard king is tyrannosaurus rex; tyranno meaning "tyrant", saurus meaning "lizard", and rex meaning "king".
my name means a lizard in Asia