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

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

The Ninja Turtles started as a parody of other violent comics.

I don't see references to modern mythology as different from references to 
Classical mythology. If the allusion fits well, why not.

>From Linnaeus onward there's a tradition of _mocking_ Classical mythology. 
>Triton the merman? The newts (now replaced by *Triturus*, which probably had 
>priority). Siren, the kind of woman everyone finds irresistible? A 
>drab-looking aquatic salamander without hindlimbs â and on top of that the 
>sea cows are Order Sirenia. Bellerophon the hero? A Paleozoic snail. And so on.