Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26938547-20170512033256/@comment-4820209-20170529080103

Tobyv23 wrote: Godzilla was a species back then, so I'm trying to figure out what the scientific name would've been at the time. Time isn't of relevance with regards to scientific naming processes, bar the technicality of what time a scientist may exist to find and then name it, in the pseudo case of Sue, the Tyrannosaurus. Scientific names tend to come from Latin terminology (Tyrannosaurus rex, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus), with scientific names following a general pattern of location with regards to the subname. One example being aegyptiacus which refers to Egypt.

Godzilla's scientific name again would boil down to location. Could be the location of origin or resurgence. Either would hypothetically work.