What's Your Dinosaur Name?
Have you ever wondered what your dinosaur name would have been? Well we have a sure fire way to find out!
It turns out dinosaur names are literally just translations of their features.
A new dinosaur has been been discovered, called the Nasutoceratops, which literally translates as "Big-Nosed Horn-Face".
The Stegosaurus is a "Roofed Reptile", the Diplodocus a "Double Beamed Lizard" (because of the long neck and tail), while the Velociraptor is a "Speedy Thief"!
So what would YOUR name be if you were a dinosaur? You can find out James and Charlie's dinosaur names here in Charlie's Blog.
Use the table below (thanks to the University Of California Mueseum Of Paleontology) to look up words that describe you, then just put them together and see what you come up with!
Let us know yours in the comments below.
a, ar, and |
no, not |
acro |
top |
allo |
strange |
alti |
tall, high |
angusti |
sharp |
apato |
deceptive |
baro |
heavy, pressure |
bi |
two |
brachio |
arm |
brachy |
short |
bronto |
thunder |
canthus |
spiked, spined |
cera |
horned |
coelo |
hollow |
compso |
pretty |
datyl |
finger |
deino |
terrible |
derm |
skin |
di |
two |
don, den |
tooth |
dromaeo |
running |
drypto |
wounding |
echino |
elasmo |
elmi |
foot |
gnathus |
jaw |
hetero |
mixed |
lana |
wooly |
lepto |
slender |
lestes |
robber |
lopho |
ridged |
luro |
tail |
macro |
large |
maia |
good mother |
mega |
huge |
metro |
measured |
mimus |
mimic |
mono |
single |
morpho |
shaped |
mucro |
pointed |
nano |
dwarf |
nodo |
lumpy |
nycho |
clawed |
ornitho |
bird |
pachy |
thick |
ped, pos, pes |
foot |
penta |
five |
phalangia |
toes |
phobo |
fearsome |
placo, plateo |
flat |
pola, poly |
many |
preno |
sloping |
ptero |
winged |
quadri |
four |
raptor |
thief |
rex |
king |
rhinot |
nose |
saurus |
lizard, reptile |
segno |
slow |
stego |
roofed |
steneo |
narrow |
stenotes |
finger |
stereo |
twin |
stuthio |
ostrich |
tarbo |
alarming |
tetra |
four |
thero |
beast |
top |
head, face |
tri |
three |
tyranno |
tyrant |
velox, veloci |
speedy, fast |