Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Let's explore the stories behind the names of the world's favourite dinosaurs.
🦕Which dinos are the "roof lizard", "egg thief", "chicken mimic" and "arm lizard"?
🦎Why aren't dinosaurs lizards?
🦖How do scientists name dinosaurs?
These questions answered – and many more – in this voyage through dinosaur etymology.

Thanks to Casius Morrison from London's Natural History Museum for his expertise.

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==CHAPTERS==
0:00 Introduction
0:34 What "Dinosaur" means
1:54 MyHeritage
3:18 Dinosaur categories
3:36 THEROPODS: T-rex, Velociraptor, Gallimimus etc.
8:45 SAUROPODS: Diplodocus, Brachiosaurus, Brontosaurus etc.
11:40 CERAPODS: Triceratops, Styracosaurus, Hadrosaurs, Pachycephalosaurs
14:27 THYREOPHORANS: Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus
15:15 Names after places
16:25 NON-DINOSAURS: Pterosaurs, Plesiosaurs & Ichthyosaurs
17:35 DINO TEST