Re: [dinosaur] Xunmenglong, new compsognathid theropod from Lower Cretaceous of China

> Also _Pinguinus_: the great auk, not penguins.  This one goes back over 200 years, and the origin seems innocent enough.  One hypothesis is that the great auk (now extinct) was the first bird to be called a pingin/penguin, and the word was only later applied to the birds we now call penguins.

That's not a hypothesis, that's an observed fact: the great auk is called pingouin in French, where the penguins are called manchot.

In Welsh, Cornish and Breton, pen gwynn (and variants) literally means "white head" and was applied to one of the capes the great auks covered in guano.