What dinosaur has the longest name?

The Longest Dinosaur Name
The dinosaur with the longest name was Micropachycephalosaurus meaning "tiny thick-headed lizard". Its fossils have been found in China, and it was named in 1978 by the Chinese paleontologist Dong.
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What dinosaur has the most letters in its name?

Micropachycephalosaurus, is the longest generic name for a dinosaur with 23 letters and nine syllables. For such a huge name, it was quite a small dinosaur as the name means `small thick-headed lizard'.
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What's the dinosaur with the shortest name?

Yi is notable for having the shortest generic name of any dinosaur, containing only two letters. Its binomial name, Yi qi, is also the shortest possible under articles 11.8.
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What is the hardest dinosaur name to pronounce?

Huehuecanauhtlus. Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico.
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Is Micropachycephalosaurus the smallest dinosaur?

Micropachycephalosaurus is an Ornithischian dinosaur that lived in China during the late Cretaceous, between 70 - 68 million years ago. Its name means a "small, thick-headed lizard". Although it has the longest name of any other dinosaur to date, it is the smallest dinosaur (0.5 to 1 meter long).
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What dinosaur has the most teeth?

Nigersaurus had a delicate skull and an extremely wide mouth lined with teeth especially adapted for browsing plants close to the ground. This bizarre, long-necked dinosaur is characterized by its unusually broad, straight-edged muzzle tipped with more than 500 replaceable teeth.
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What animal has the longest name?

The longest scientific binomial name given to any animal is Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides (containing 42 letters), which is a species of stratiomyid fly with a metallic green thorax and abdomen, known as the soldier fly.
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What is the weirdest animal name?

The 12 Weirdest Animal Names
  • of 12. The Screaming Hairy Armadillo. Wikimedia Commons. ...
  • of 12. The Penis Snake. ...
  • of 12. The Paradoxical Frog. ...
  • of 12. The Pleasing Fungus Beetle. ...
  • of 12. The Angora Rabbit. ...
  • of 12. The Raspberry Crazy Ant. ...
  • of 12. The Chicken Turtle. ...
  • of 12. The Ice Cream Cone Worm.
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What is the hardest animal name to spell?

12 Animals With Hard-to-Spell Names
  • 1/12. Xoloitzcuintli. Family: Canidae. ...
  • 2/12. Uakari. Family: Pitheciidae. ...
  • 3/12. Ankole-Watusi. Family: Bovidae. ...
  • 4/12. Axolotl. Family: Ambystomatidae. ...
  • 5/12. Ptarmigan. Family: Phasianidae. ...
  • 6/12. Kusimanse. Family: Herpestidae. ...
  • 7/12. Coelacanth. Family: Coelacanthidae. ...
  • 8/12. Monte Iberia Eleuth.
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What dinosaur has the funniest name?

Here are the 10 dinosaurs with the weirdest, funniest, and (in one or two cases) most inappropriate names.
  • of 10. Anatotitan. Ballista/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0. ...
  • of 10. Colepiocephale. ...
  • of 10. Drinker. ...
  • of 10. Gasosaurus. ...
  • of 10. Irritator. ...
  • of 10. Yamaceratops. ...
  • of 10. Piatnitzkysaurus. ...
  • of 10. Bambiraptor.
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What is the ugliest dinosaur?

The 10 Ugliest Dinosaurs
  • of 10. Hippodraco. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Isisaurus. Dmitri Bogdanov. ...
  • of 10. Jeyawati. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Masiakasaurus. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Nigersaurus. Australian Museum. ...
  • of 10. Pegomastax. Pegomastax (Tyler Keillor). ...
  • of 10. Suzhousaurus. Wikimedia Commons. ...
  • of 10. Tianyulong. Nobu Tamura.
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What is the cutest dinosaur?

Top 10 Cutest Dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era
  • of 10. Gigantoraptor. ...
  • of 10. Leaellynasaura. ...
  • of 10. Limusaurus. ...
  • of 10. Mei. ...
  • of 10. Micropachycephalosaurus. ...
  • of 10. Minmi. ...
  • of 10. Nothronychus. ...
  • of 10. Unaysaurus. Fossils of the Unaysaurus have been found in the Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
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What is the longest name in the whole world?

The longest personal name is 747 characters long, and belongs to Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (b. 4 August 1914, Germany) who passed away on 24 October 1997, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, as verified on 1 January 2021.
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What is the longest element name?

The prize for the longest element name goes to rutherfordium, named after the famous New Zealand physicist Lord Ernest Rutherford who won a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Praseodymium means 'green twin', a name that relates to confusion over the supposed element didymium.
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What is the longest word in the world?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.
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What animal has the shortest name?

  • 4 letters. Restoration of Yi qi (4 letters) Ia io Thomas, 1902 – Family Vespertilionidae. ...
  • 5 letters. Drawing of Foa fo (5 letters) Aha ha Menke, 1977 – Family Crabronidae. ...
  • 6 letters. Skull of Beg tse (6 letters) Loa loa (6 letters) ...
  • 7 letters. Copa kei (7 letters) Doto kya (7 letters)
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What animal has the longest memory?

The new research shows that dolphins have the longest memory yet known in any species other than people. Elephants and chimpanzees are thought to have similar abilities, but they haven't yet been tested, said study author Jason Bruck, an animal behaviorist at the University of Chicago.
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Is giraffe a dumb animal?

Many people assume that the giraffe's neck helps them get leaves off tall trees, but there are a limited number of trees in East Africa, where the giraffe lives. Furthermore, the giraffe is a quiet animal that seems to have very little to say. Therefore, many assume that the giraffe is dumb.
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What animal has the weirdest scientific name?

20 Animals With Completely Ridiculous Names
  • of 20. Wunderpus photogenicus. AndamanSE / Getty Images. ...
  • of 20. Spiny Lumpsucker. RLSPHOTO / Getty Images. ...
  • of 20. Pleasing Fungus Beetle. Dr. ...
  • of 20. Pink Fairy Armadillo. ...
  • of 20. Rasberry Crazy Ant. ...
  • of 20. Satanic Leaf-Tailed Gecko. ...
  • of 20. Tasselled Wobbegong. ...
  • of 20. Hellbender.
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What breakfast drink has the longest name?

If this drink wasn't so damn tasty, we'd resent it for causing us to have to re-calculate how drink names are displayed in our app – at 25 characters, it's probably one of the longest single-word drink names in existence!
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How do you say Monolophosaurus?

Monolophosaurus (/ˌmɒnoʊˌlɒfoʊˈsɔːrəs/ MON-oh-LOF-oh-SOR-əs; meaning "single-crested lizard") is an extinct genus of tetanuran theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Shishugou Formation in what is now Xinjiang, China.
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What animal has 25000 teeth?

Snails: Even though their mouths are no larger than the head of a pin, they can have over 25,000 teeth over a lifetime – which are located on the tongue and continually lost and replaced like a shark!
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