how are dinosaurs named?
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The scientific names of dinosaurs are authored by the person who describes them for the first time. The author must use greek or latin terms and the name may refer to some characteristic of the new species, or may be dedicated to some other person, or both combined. \nExamples: Dilophosaurus means "double-crested lizard"\nGasparinisaura was named in honor of Dr Gasparini, a paleontologist from Argentina.
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Never heard of a one-clawed dinosaur... one that has a single big claw is velociraptor. Don't know too much about the "hopping" part either, because dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years and we can never know for sure.
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Officially, the first dinosaur species to be identified and named was Iguanodon, discovered in 1822 by the English geologist Gideon Mantell.  However, we will never know the first discoverer of dinosaur bones. Dinosaur fossils have been known about for millennia, though their true nature was not recognized.  The Chinese considered them to be dragon bones, while Europeans believed them to be the remains of giants and other creatures killed by the Great Flood.
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Rex.\n\nEveryone knows that THE saurus is the tyrannosaurus rex, so we simply use "Rex" for short.
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it is there just look a bit harder, the word "dinosaur" is obviosly not.\n\nhttp://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml\nhttp://www.christiancourier.com/archives/dinosaurs.htm\n\nANd a great site on Dinos and Humans togeather:\nhttp://www.creationevidence.org/\nhttp://www.creationevidence.org/fa_questions/dinoman.html
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Okay, unlike just about every other poster up to this point, I don't have to guess at this answer.\n\nNo.  Both lizards and dinosaurs are reptiles, but they aren't related beyond that.\n\nLizards are a specific class of reptiles, both modern and ancient, which do not include dinosaurs... and likewise dinosaurs are a specific class of reptiles (long extinct) which do not include lizards.\n\nIf you need more information, feel free to email me at mesipf@yahoo.com to ask further questions.  =)
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Diadectomorpha\nAnthracosauria\nTherapsida\nCacops\nLysorophia\nDissorophoidea\nEdaphosaurus\nDissorphidae\nLabyrinthodontia\nDiadectes\nBatrachosauria\nPelycosaur\nDicynodont\nEureptilia\nThecodont\nSphenacodontidae\nLepospondyli\nLystrosaurus\nEdaphosauridae\nAïstopoda\nReptiliomorpha\nTemnospondyli\nPareiasaur\nLethiscus\nDiadectidae\nArchosauromorpha\nDinocephalia\nArchosauriformes\nAcanthodii\nArchosaur\nEryops\nTetrapod\nBradysaurus
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http://www.bibleandscience.com/science/dinosaurs.htm explains everything.
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When did God create dinosaurs, and when did they become extinct?\n\nThe Bible does not provide specific answers to this question. According to the Genesis account, animals were created during the fifth and sixth creative periods or ‘days.’ If the Hebrew expression translated “great sea monsters” [Hebrew, tan·ni·nim'] includes dinosaurs, which often inhabited swampy, watery areas, this would mean that dinosaurs were created on the fifth “day.” (Gen. 1:21) We do not know whether they continued to exist until man was created (toward the close of the sixth “day”). At the very latest it seems likely that they must have disappeared off the earth at the time of the flood of Noah’s day. Dinosaurs were reptiles, and some kinds of dinosaurs bear strong resemblance structurally and otherwise to lizards (sauros is, in fact, the Greek word for “lizard”; saura in Leviticus 11:29 . Not all types of dinosaurs were of such gigantic size. Hence, even if they had survived till the Flood, this would not have required taking pairs of the mammoth varieties into the ark. Other smaller members of the particular family or “kind” to which these belonged would have sufficed to fulfill the divine command.\n\nWhile the radioactive dating method is innovative, it is still based on speculation and assumption. In contrast, the Bible account in the first chapter of Genesis simply states the general order of creation. It allows for possibly thousands of millions of years for the formation of the earth and many millenniums in six creative eras, or “days,” to prepare the earth for human habitation.\n\nSome dinosaurs (and pterosaurs) may indeed have been created in the fifth era listed in Genesis, when the Bible says that God made “flying creatures” and “great sea monsters.” Perhaps other types of dinosaurs were created in the sixth epoch. The vast array of dinosaurs with their huge appetites would have been appropriate considering the abundant vegetation that evidently existed in their time.—Genesis 1:20-24.\n\nWhen the dinosaurs had fulfilled their purpose, God ended their life. But the Bible is silent on how he did that or when. We can be sure that dinosaurs were created by Jehovah for a purpose, even if we do not fully understand that purpose at this time. They were no mistake, no product of evolution. That they suddenly appear in the fossil record unconnected to any fossil ancestors, and also disappear without leaving connecting fossil links, is evidence against the view that such animals gradually evolved over millions of years of time. Thus, the fossil record does not support the evolution theory. Instead, it harmonizes with the Bible’s view of creative acts of God.\n\nWhen Did They Live?\n\nDinosaurs played a dominant role in life on earth during their age. But then they came to an end. The rock layers containing human fossils consistently occur above those layers containing dinosaur fossils. Because of this, scientists generally conclude that humans came on the earthly scene later.\n\nIn this regard the book Palaeontology, by James Scott, states: “Even the earliest species of Homo sapiens (man) lived long after the disappearance of the dinosaurs . . . After tilting (through earth movement) has been allowed for, rocks containing fossil men consistently occur above those preserving the bones of the great dinosaur reptiles and it follows that the latter belong to an earlier age than the human remains.”
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havent u seen the jurassic-park movies ?? its the large dinosaur that comes in these movies all the time.its a huge sized flesh eating dinosaur.also called T-REX (as its full name is tyranosauras rex).its till date,the largest carnivorous dinosaur that ever inhabited earth.
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Argentinosaurus.... thats a dinosaur
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Ginormous, naturally. I wonder, if you put them all together, how tall he would be? Taller than your house? Would his head be in the clouds?\n\nBut you asked how big the bones would be, not the Ginormosaurus himself. \n\nSo let me think .... ah, I have thought. \n\nGinormosauruses have arms and legs and hands and feet rather like we do, so let us say that we found a bone that was just as tall as you. \n\nWhere do you think it would come from? Would it be a leg bone? Might it be an arm bone? \n\nWrong! It is a bone from the very tip of the Ginormosaurus' little finger ... and it is as tall as you are! Think how big his little finger would be (this is just the tip bone, where the claw is)! Now think how big his hand must be ... and his arm ... and his leg .... and his whole body! I think your Ginormosaurus would REALLY touch the clouds!\n\n(I am really rather glad that there are no Ginormosauruses in the world today.)\n\nI have a question for you:\n\nQ: If you see a dinosaur with it's eyes shut, what is it's name?\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...\n\nA: A Doyouthinkhesaurus\n\n(Maybe you knew that already)
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The Bible does reference dinosaurs, but other words are used in place of "dinosaur."  For example, in Job 40:15-24 "behemoth" is used to describe a dinosaur, and the word "Leviathan" is used in Psalm 104:25-26, Job 41, and Isaiah 27:1.
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I assume you mean the dinosaur:  pterodactyl
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Well, I believe many of the names of the bones are Latin based. Perhaps the function of a bone (what it was used for) helped in the naming process? Who really knows? Why is a rose called a rose? If given any other name, it would still smell as sweet and look as red. :) But actually, I really bet that their names are meaningful in that they help the doctor identify what it does just by knowing the name of the bone.
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both are right.. in science studies, they only proved that dinosaurs came first. but in the bible, we cant question it bec its gods words
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My favourite would have to be Deinonychus, which is the actual dinosaur that most people think of when they think Velociraptor (i.e. the critter from Jurassic Park).  Real Velociraptors (while cool) were actually about half the size of Deinonychus - but have a much cooler name, so they used that name in the film and it seems to have stuck onto the larger dinosaur now.