best dinosaur names

[Colin McHenry <cmchenry@westserv.net.au>]

This will be old news to some of you, but anyway...


I was glancing through an Australian bird book, and came across this 
little gem:

The Common Noddy
/Anous stolidus/ ("stupid witless bird")

Some zoologist really didn't like this poor animal.

This has now overtaken /Platycephalus /and /Ornithorhynchus /as my 
favourite scientific name :-)



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Colin McHenry
School of Environmental and Life Sciences (Geology)
University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia
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