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Originally Posted by PRogers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"Dinosaur" is just a word. Doesnt actually mean a species or group of creatures.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/articl...word-dinosaur/

When Sir Richard Owen, a naturalist and paleontologist, took a look at the three fossils together, he had a stunning realization: Unlike contemporary reptiles, both the Megalosaurus and Iguanodon had five vertebrate at the base of their spine that appeared to have fused together during their lifetime. Owen hypothesized that the same was true of Hylaeosaurus—something that would link the three mysterious species together.

He catalogued his observations in an 1841 edition of Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: “The combination of such characters… altogether peculiar among Reptiles… all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.”

Owen had compounded two Greek words: deinos, which means “horrible” or “fearful,” and the previously used sauros. The result: A terrifying lizard.

Originally Posted by Reiwa [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Doesn't it mean 'terrible lizard'? Terrible as in great

Yes