- Tinosaur! RAWR!
First a shout-out to Slog-tipper Carrie who has given me the gift of the word tinosaur, meaning very tiny dinosaurs. It is my new favorite word.
Today’s dinosaur is NOT a tinosaur, however. It is instead a huge sauropod, Angolatitan adamastor. (The name alone is awesome: Adamastor is a sea giant from Portuguese mythology.)
Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it’s a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emerging from decades of war.
A paper published Wednesday in the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences describes a long-necked, plant-eating sauropod, among the largest creatures ever to have walked the earth.
In other dino-detritus:
· The premier of Terra Nova—the new time-traveling, dinosaur-fighting tv show—has been pushed back til fall.
· Geek Dad reviews the new book The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, written and illustrated by Gregory Paul.
· You may now pre-order Valve Software’s Dino D-Day, a video game about NAZI DINOSAURS:
The year is 1942. Adolf Hitler has succeeded in resurrecting dinosaurs. The reptilian horde has trampled Europe and the Mediterranean. Can nothing stop the Nazi’s dinosaur army?
What the world needs more of is machinima vids of Tinosaurs riding surf boards over the molten hot lava mud with a rawking metal soundtrack behind them.
Godzilla would have loved that, even if it meant he had to hang out with vegetarians like Hitler – after all, if s/he got hungry, s/he could always eat the Mustached One.
I would totally play that game! I wanna fight Hitlersaurs!
Dear Mary Traverse-
Scientific names are rendered in italics, with the Genus name capitalized, and the specific name in lower-case letters.
Thank you!
STJA
But what if you’re Italian? Do you have to use UPPERCASE?
Bold is acceptable.
Or, more brutally, _this sort of bullshit_.
there used to be an HTML tag for underscores, just like strikethru, but I can’t remember if it’s still in HTML6 or not. damned alpha code.
Yes, dumbass, it’s still there. But it’s really supposed to be in italics anyway.
It’s my new favorite word as well, Mary.
Shout out for BBC 4 dinosaur/time-travel series “Primeval”.