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Dinosaurs Today's Dinosaur News
Posted by Mary Traverse on Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM
Today's news comes via the Dinosaur Mailing List!
Are you aware that Iceland has its own names for dinosaurs?! I was not aware! Apparently, "There are a whole bunch named after gods and goddesses (Apatosaurus/Þórseðla, Maiasaura/Freyjueðla)". A (short) blog entry about it is here.
According to the rest of the thread on the DML, the Chinese and the Swedes also translate the Latin/Greek names into their native tongue.
So there you go. The More You Know®
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