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Searching "giga-goose" before June 3rd brings up basically nothing, someone last year called this species a "gigantic goose" and a bunch of unrelated things. I wonder where the nickname came from, and how important it was towards getting this article published.

Also I wonder if there's a move away from "mega" towards "giga" as mega anything seems kinda small. I can't see "tera" ever being a thing, I can't think of an independent connection to some other word meaning large.




It's really weird that giga was used, since mega has a specific meaning in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna


Alliteration always anticipates attention.


Etymologically, “giga” does make more sense as a generic ’big’ prefix than “mega”. I believe that the former basically means “great” while the latter means “mighty”, which is less flexible.

“Tera” has the problem of being overloaded. It’s a homophone with “terra” which is a common prefix for things related to the Earth or ground. Also that lack of a strong second consonant hurts it. Etymologically it means “monstrous”, which is even less flexible.


They don't get as much love as the more famous Genyornis, also known as the "Demon Duck of Doom" [1].

[1] https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-...


This would make a great title for the next Untitled Goose Game


Doubly so given that Untitled Goose Game is from an Australian game studio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_House




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