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

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

Postby ZeroWolf » Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:50 pm

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Here's some odd but delightful news to share and it comes courtesy of BBC News Portsmouth. According to the report, a paleontology student at Portsmouth University has named a new species of Pterosaur after IDW Maximum Dinobot Comic Artist Nick Roche.

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(What the Klobiodon Rochei might have looked like by Mark Witton)

The dinosaur's full name is Klobiodon rochei, with the first part of the name meaning "Cage Tooth" and the second referencing Nick.

Nick posted about the naming on Twitter, having shown his gratitude to the student by sending him some signed prints and a design page for IDW Swoop.

Nick Roche wrote:Oh, Can you please send that back, mate? I've been looking for that. Ta.

(Full dislcosure: Mikey's a paleontologist who named a FLIPPING DINOSAUR - Klobiodon Rochei - After me! https://t.co/8xE3CsaOSm)

But yeah, send that back, mate. Cheers https://t.co/CBFw9ritOx


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

Postby Nemesis Maximo » Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:57 pm

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This is awesome. I’d love to know the reasoning, although I’m assuming it has something to do with that magnificent chin.
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Re: Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him

Postby D-Maximal_Primal » Fri Dec 21, 2018 7:12 pm

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

Postby Sabrewing » Sat Dec 22, 2018 4:15 am

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

Postby Cyberstrike » Sat Dec 22, 2018 10:05 am

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

Postby triKlops » Sat Dec 22, 2018 11:00 am

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

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

Postby Tyrannacon » Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:25 pm

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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. :P

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