I used to often go through lists, google searches, and so on looking for funny/weird animal names. I have made quite a few lists already, and I thought I would make a post here to see if some of you know some good ones. plants and fungi also welcome :) Here are some of my favorites that I can fin…

I know it’s extinct but I gotta say irritator challengeri. It was a spinosaur from Brazil that is named after the irritating challenge of preparing the fossils after they were taken from smugglers. [rawr] (art by anthon500)

Both species of triangles are in the genus Trigonodes (which means triangular) in the tribe Euclidiini, which implies that the sum of the angles is 180°. Should the metric paper wasp be the mascot of the metric system?

[image] phma: Should the metric paper wasp be the mascot of the metric system? HELL YEAH!

I got in a little bit of trouble the other day in school for joking about great tits in my art class because someone brought up weird bird names

Can anyone guess what the delightful bird-dropping moth looks like? :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/232309-Tarache-delecta

It looks delightfully slimy :laughing:

Devoted horse fly. Who’s he devoted to? Deduced graphic (moth). Columella is a snail. Columella is also the axis that a snail’s shell winds around. I sent this to Curious Taxonomy for the “valid word in other context” page, with the subject “valid word in same context”, but he hasn’t updated the s…

Short-beaked Beak Sedge seems odd to me. Rhynchospora nitens

[image] phma: (moth) I deduced as much!

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isopodguy September 17, 2025, 3:44pm 797

Delightful is not necessarily the word that comes to mind when I think of bird droppings.

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