Jo, yes. We already know everything that archaeologists like to give names of things famous for their findings. Just have to see Lucy , the Australopithecus afarensis named after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which was what the team was listening last night to discover Lucy .
But today was unexpected. I was quietly reading the December issue of National Geographic last year and I found this gem.
"even more impractical design shaped the skull of Dracorex hogwartsia pachycephalosaurs : a sharp horn blast and without the dome-shaped bumps. Swhat has been unearthed one of those skulls, and displayed in the Indianapolis's Children's Museum, its name comes from the school of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Harry Potter
WHEN: 67-65 ma
ago WHERE: North America.
bristling with spikes and sharp protrusions on Dracorex straight out of a medieval legend. But the creature that probably belonged more like a wild pig eating flowers, the "dragon king" that spits fire that is referenced by its name. Found by amateur fossil hunters in South Dakota, the Dracorex has been rated by paleontologist Robert Bakker and Robert Sullivan in the family of herbivorous pachycephalosaurs. Muchas species in this group had thick domes on the skull, which, like the horns of bighorn sheep, may have allowed them to use their heads to attack. Does the Dracorex relatively flat with his skull, also gave headers? Why not, asks Bakker and mentioned the case of pork from the forests of Africa, which also uses a flat skull and a long snout to fend deprededores and attacks on their rivals in fierce fighting for mates "
Extreme Dinosaurs, National Geographic, December 2007.
Vale. A pig-eating flowers is not very threatening to say, even horns, spikes and skulls plans you have. I would have preferred to have been a pa recido a Tyrannosaurus Rex or something imposed. But it is the first step! The next is that HSBC will change the name to "Gringotts". Jojojojojo.
Unfortunately, the magazine had no drawings Dracorex monkeys (two or three were drawing mono) but if there was a small scale and a photo of the skull, which I scanned for you. As this is a picture of two pages is cut in half. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Part II 
Oh, yeah! The photos are not mine, if not, by Ira Block.
