Monkey, salmon, pelican, turtle, cobra, poodle, alligator, eagle, iguana, geraffe, rhinoceros….all have unique names that don’t follow any major sort of naming system. I realize these are the general names and not the true scientific names, but why are so many dinosaurs all named with saurus at the end?
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Because people needed to refer to this animals long before science did and they got normal names. Dinosaurs were all named by scientists after being discovered in the 1800s.
Animals also all have scientific names just like you described. We just don’t use them in everyday speech
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