1056: Felidae
| 1056: Felidae |
 Title text: 'Smilodon fatalis' narrowly edged out 'Tyrannosaurus rex' to win this year's Most Badass Latin Names competition, after edging out 'Dracorex hogwartsia' and 'Stygimoloch spinifer' (meaning 'horned dragon from the river of death') in the semifinals. |
Description
This comic is three parted (or four if you count the Latin name portion).
First, the names are sorted up by genuses (a genus (plural: genera) is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms) from bottom to top of which animals would win in a fight.
Secondly, the names within the genus are then sorted by coolness of name from left to right.
Thirdly, in red you can see the direction that Apple has taken with naming their OS X Operating Systems. They started at Cheetah and have moved through genuses from there in no order that this chart can make out.
And lastly, I'm pretty sure 'Dracorex hogwartsia' is a fake name because it has too much of the name "Hogwarts" in it, which is the magical school from the Harry Potter series of books and movies. - It is real: Dracorex hogwartsia
