Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him

This is awesome. I’d love to know the reasoning, although I’m assuming it has something to do with that magnificent chin.

so well deserved. shoulda put "Wreck" or "rule" in that name somehow too

This is not a dinosaur.

It's a pterosaur. (A rhamphorynchid, to be precise: it has a tail).

I am astounded that this happened in 2018. If it has wings, it is not a dinosaur.

Well if the late Micheal Crichton (author of a little book called Jurassic Park maybe some of you heard of it) can get a dinosaur named after him so can an artist who drew robot dinosaurs once.


So Congrats Nick Roche!

The student is Mikey from the Transformers focused Moonbase 2 podcast. He has talked about this for the last little bit on the podcast.

https://moonbase2.libsyn.com
https://twitter.com/themoonbase2?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/Moonbase2/

I was going to point out that it was in fact a pterosaur and not a dinosaur. Pterosaurs are archosaur-line animals related to dinosaurs, crocodillians, and obviously birds. Typically, they are incorrectly presumed to be dinosaurs, but they're closer to dinosaurs though than animals like Plesiosaurus, Kronosaurus, Tylosaurus, and Mosasaurus though. Actually, fun fact, Tylosaurus and mosasaurs like it are related to monitor lizards while Plesiosaurus and Kronosaurus fall under Sauropterygia and are defined as Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs, which are both closely related. Think of pliosaurs as basically short-necked plesiosaurs.

Oh and Dimetrodon, before anybody says it, is a synapsid and therefore closer to mammals than dinosaurs.

...I am a walking encyclopedia of knowledge when it comes to natural history subjects. *disappears back into the shadows*