New dinosaur named after Hogwarts

[Chaldfont]

Chaldfont comment FOR THE WIN. Because it's true. Children's museums are so cool.

And my personal favorite goofy name for science stuff: Sonic Hedgehog IN YOUR BRAIN.

Thanks, man.

Oh yeah, Sonic Hedgehog. Those crazy molecular biologists... I run across this gene every once in a while at work and it slays me every time.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Is it as strange as naming a planetoid just beyond Pluto, and slightly larger then Pluto, after Xena, the warrior princess?

 

[Steve Jung]

Tommy Lasorda has an asteroid named after him. So do Monty Python and Mr. Spock.
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html

 

[Fishbone]

So does Douglas Adams

 

[Klaus]

On related news (i.e. naming stuff), Pluto now has three moons: Charon and the recently discovered Nyx and Hydra.

 

[Fishbone]

Oh yeah? Mark Knopfler has a dinosaur named after him.
FTW.