GOGIRA!!!

First hobbits and now this. My collegues in paleo are playing way too much to the comercial nick names. Before "Sue" the T. rex, fossils didn't get nick names, they got accession numbers. A paleontologist could look at a Tyrannosaur skeleton and say "hey, I think that's MOR555." Now a fossil has been dubbed Godzilla and I cringe. What ever happened to media taking the dinosaur name and making it popular. Fifty or so dinosaur wouldn't be called raptors if it weren't for the original Velociraptor. Where's the dignity gone?