What Not To Name Your Dino

1. “Scrotum humanum,” The World’s First Dinosaur

Behold “Scrotum humanum”, the very first dinosaur name ever coined. In 1763, British naturalist Richard Brookes was shown a femur fragment which he named for the infamous piece of the male genitalia he felt it resembled.

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