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Published online 17 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1111
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In search of Thingummyjigosaurus
There are errors in almost half the names given to dinosaurs.
One hundred and thirty-five years of questionable judgments, some driven by a lust for headlines, have left dinosaur nomenclature in disarray, according to two new studies.
The studies find that of 1,401 names given to dinosaurs species from 1824 to 2004, about 16 per cent of names were duplicates, and 32 per cent embodied errors of some other sort.
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