Portrait of Robert Broom, Not That Ugly, Compare the Palaeontological Designation

Here, John Woodmorappe mentions Robert Broom.

Entertaining storytelling about the presumed evolution of mammals
by John Woodmorappe | This article is from
Journal of Creation 38(2):37–40, August 2024
https://creation.com/review-the-rise-and-reign-of-the-mammals-brusatte

A review of: The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A new history from the shadow of the dinosaurs to us by Steve Brusatte, Mariner Press, New York, 2022

Turns out, in my attempts to salvage the content of the site Palaeocritti, before it went down, I came across his name, both as discoverer, and as namegiver without personal involvement:

Palaeocritti Blog: Broomicephalus laticeps
https://palaeocritti.blogspot.com/2013/11/broomicephalus-laticeps.html

By the way, my link to the original site which went down is now re-directing to Crit-Ti Palaeo which is defined as "Paleontology meeting" ...

Point is, Broomicephalus means Broom's head. I wondered "was Broom that ugly?"

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broomicephalus1DB.jpg

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I then noted, no, "Broom's" is because Broom discovered it, and "head" is because he only found a ... skull.

But still, if you want to tell someone he's excruciatingly ugly, Broomicephalus or Biarmosuchian might be the word you are looking for. Not that you should, usually./HGL