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Re: [dinosaur] Ninjatitan, new titanosaur (earliest known) from Lower Cretaceous of Argentina



Thomas Yazbeck <yazbeckt@msu.edu> wrote:

> I feel better about it now! If it was named after Teenage Mutant Ninja 
> Turtles, I would have been cross.


_Ninjemys_, a prehistoric turtle (Meiolaniidae), is indeed named after
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

"Etymology: Ninja, in allusion to that totally rad, fearsome foursome
epitomizing shelled success; emys, turtle"

No, I'm not making this up.   That is the actual etymology (Gaffney,
1982; American Museum Novitates 3049: 1-10).